Quick Background

Our artifact is Picasso's Guernica, shown below



Fig. 1 Guernica

  This massive painting (3.5m high and 7.75m long) was painted by Picasso in response to the bombing of the spanish town of Guernica by the German airforce in support of the fascist forces loyal to General Franco.

If I understood the briefing correctly, we'll need to look into things like why the bombing happened, and why Picasso chose to document it in this form.

List of Illustrations

Figure 1.   Pablo Picasso (1937) Guernica [Oil on canvas] At: http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/110images/sl24_images/guernica_details/guernica_all.jpg (Accessed on 03/02/2011)