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This series in four episodes of the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.), signed Peggy Leroy, Henri Desaunay and Mathilde Rougeron, tells the story of the painting Guernica, painted by Pablo Picasso. This work, which marked the history of 20th century art, is now on display at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
This eight-by-three-meter fresco on canvas, produced in barely a month by the master of cubism, was painted in Paris in 1937. It denounces the destruction of the city on April 26, 1937, by airmen of the legion Condor sent by Hitler to support General Franco. Guernica bECOMES a symbol of the fight against dictatorship.
His first committed work
Pablo Picasso locked himself in his Paris studio with his partner Dora Maar to create this huge canvas. She will witness this creation by photographing it. The legend of anti-fascist work is on the move. War soon broke out across Europe.
Picasso’s fame is immense when he paints Guernica and his fortune is already made. This is his first committed, political work. It is the expression of his anger, that of an entire people and the beginning of a lifelong showdown between General Franco and the artist…
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