Guernica is etched in my consciousness as the image of defencelessness, trampled innocence, Franco's savagery. |
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At times, the distorted horse faces even look like the ones in Picasso's immortal La Guernica. |
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Of all these bombed cities and villages, only Guernica went down in history. |
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This celebrated, rare etching is based on studies Picasso made for a figure of a weeping woman in Guernica. |
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It took as its theme the near destruction by German bombers of the small Basque town of Guernica. |
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Late in the afternoon of April 26, 1937 waves of bombers obliterated the ancient capital of Basque Spain, Guernica. |
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Civilians were aware of the deadly power of aerial attacks through newsreels of Barcelona, the Bombing of Guernica and the Bombing of Shanghai. |
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The raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests in the democracies. |
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Inside it displayed the most modernist work of the Exposition, the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso. |
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One infamous operation was the bombing of Guernica in the Basque country. |
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The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam, and Warsaw were considered tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks. |
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