Picasso at first instance has not idea about the subject of his painting but he received inspiration from the consternation that he suffered when he read in a newspaper that “in the afternoon of the 26th of April 1937, German planes began bombing the town of Guernica, trying out some of their new weaponry and military tactics. Germany, under the direction of Adolf Hitler, had supported the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War with weapons and other material …show more content…
On the right side of the painting we continue seeing scene of destruction and chaos of a building on fire, expression of pain in a man exclaiming to the sky, the head of a woman like a ghost through a window and a woman on her knee expressing