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1937年4月26日，德国法西斯空军恣意轰炸了西班牙历史名城——风光旖旎的小镇格尔尼卡，当时恰逢集市，无数无辜平民丧生，格尔尼卡被夷为平地。这一事件震撼了全世界，也震撼了毕加索。愤怒的天才画家毕加索，挥笔创作了大型油画《格尔尼卡》。七十多年过去了，这幅杰作已经成为警示战争灾难的文化符号之一，也使格尔尼卡的悲剧永远留在了人类伤痕累累的记忆中。 There is little argument that Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the Twentieth Century’s greatest and most influential artist. Picasso was a genius. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures reveal endless creativity and passion for life. His works range from realistic to abstract: the Blue, Rose, and African periods, Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism. Picasso was not true to a style. He was true to the power of personal expression. Picasso was born and educated in Spain. Although Picasso spent much of his career in the avant-garde capital city of Paris, he had a strong emotional and cultural connection to his Spanish roots. Picasso was not a political artist. However, he was so enraged by the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War (a conflict created by the Fascist coup, of General Francisco Franco and the Nationalists, of the elected Republican government), that he became political. In support of Spanish Republican forces, Picasso painted a mural for the 1937 World’s Fair, in Paris. The inspiration for the subject of the mural occurred on April 26, 1937. | 
