Guernica Pablo Picasso rsquo s most important political painting was a modernist portrayal of the destruction of a small Spanish town by that name During the Spanish revolution and the ramp-up to World War II Nazi Germany rsquo s planes were permitted by Spain rsquo s Nationalist forces to use the town for bombing practice These controversial bombings took scores of lives drawing the attention of a global community concerned over the immorality of bombing civilian targets Picasso rsquo s painting captured and horrified the imaginations of the watching world and became a catalyst for debate about humanity rsquo s
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