During Existence Enmity II, the German military bombed the Basque town of Guernica. Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist living in France at the clock, protested the bombing by portray one of his most noted pieces, Guernica.
The German Gestapo once harassed Picasso about the painting, asking if Picasso had done the painting. Picasso replied, "No, you did," according to the Art Knowledge News Website.
Motivation
According to the jotter "Kind Craft," Pablo Picasso created the portrayal "Guernica" as he wanted to grandstand play the darkness and brutality of the time.
Details
The "Guernica" portrayal showed the war event in horrifying detail. Among the details in the painting is a woman trapped under rubble, another woman holding her dead child and a terrorized horse bucking and rearing over a dismembered body.
Style
The painting is done is harsh black, whites and grays. It's painted in Cubist style. The technique served to create a distortion and fracturing of the imagery in the work.
