You Can’t Get Closer to Picasso’s “Guernica” Than This 436-Gigabyte Image The new “Rethinking Guernica” website also includes 2,000 documents and photos charting the painting’s 80 ...

Baby Guernica, 2016, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Allouche Gallery and the artist. A close-up of Baby Guernica. Flintstones Guernica, 2015, oil on canvas.

The museum lifted its longtime ban on photos of “Guernica” this month, belatedly joining the Instagram era. Still prohibited in Room 205.10 are the use of flash, ...

Guernica, the painting, is such an abstract depiction of civilian suffering that visitors have no problem posing in front of it. ... and tourists flock to take photos next to the mural.

Guernica, bombed by the German legion Condor, 1937. | brandstaetter images/GettyImages. Picasso’s painting depicts the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937.

For this work, a realistic image of the bombing of the town of Guernica, with corpses and screams in the night, would likely have felt melodramatic, saccharine, difficult to look at.

Picasso, Spain’s best-known expatriate artist, had recently worked on a series of printed images mocking Franco, but it wasn’t until after the attack on Guernica that he knew what he would ...

It portrays the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by Nazi aircraft that killed or wounded a third of the city’s population. The painting’s haunting images of humans and animals have made “Guernica ...

Guernica, Again The targeting of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon summons the image of Picasso’s wrenching mural that memorialized innocents caught in the crossfire. Nicholas von Hoffman ...

Abu Ghraib was by no means celebrated as an ancestral civic and cultural center before the year 2004. To the Iraqis, it was a name to be mentioned in whispers, if at all, as “the house of the ...

Almost two decades later, with images of disaster now appearing instantly on our smartphones, things have only got worse, ... Picasso’s “Guernica” (1937), for instance, ...