Created as an anti-war protest piece in response to the 1937 aerial bombing of a small town in northern Spain, Guernica quickly became one of Pablo Picasso’s most-recognized Cubist paintings—and for very good reason., In 1937, Picasso created an anti-war painting called "Guernica." Here we will take a look at this modern art masterpiece., This monumental painting is a powerful antiwar statement created in response to the Nazis’ indiscriminate bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Picasso painted it as the centerpiece of the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris., Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937, at his home on Rue des Grands Augustins, in Paris. The painting, which uses a palette of gray, black, and white, is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history., Picasso's famed mural 'Guernica' toured the United States in the 20th-century and became an anti-war symbol during the Vietnam War., Guernica is arguably one of the most iconic and powerful anti-war paintings of the 20th century. Created by the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1937, this work of art depicts the bombing of Guernica, a small Basque town in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes during the Spanish Civil War..