Guernica in a sentence

Guernica scholar Anthony Blunt separates the painting’s central pyramid into two groups: the first containing the bull, horse and bird, the second with a dead soldier and various women in different manifestations of grief.

However, it also features a bottom section inspired by Picasso's massive anti-war painting Guernica.

Tony added: "What makes these commemorations very special is that we are joined by relatives of some of the volunteers and some of the Basque refugee children who were evacuated to the Teesside area following the bombing of Guernica in 1937.

He says: “You remember Guernica because Picasso painted it.

The first takes us from Pablo's birth (and his first taste of nicotine), introducing the family and circumstances that shaped him; the second narrative opens with the genesis of Guernica, Picasso already an established artist (and ladies' man).

A cesta-punta player People would flock to Guernica not just from the immediate vicinity, but from all over the province, so that the town was packed.

After the bombing of Guernica in 1937 and the Rotterdam Blitz in 1940, it was commonly assumed that terror bombing was a part of Luftwaffe doctrine.

Alain Resnais 's Guernica (1950) uses Picasso 's painting to protest against war.

A tree planted in 1860 to replace it died in 2004 and was in turn replaced; the sapling that had been chosen to become the official Oak of Guernica is also sick so the tree will not be replaced until the earth around the site has been restored to health.

For almost four hours bombs rained down on Guernica in an "experiment" for the blitzkrieg tactics and bombing of civilians seen in later wars.

Guernica was on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years.

His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso's Guernica.

In Biscay, each administrative district (known as a merindad) had its appointed tree, but over the centuries, the Tree of Guernica acquired particular importance.

It should not be confused with Eusko Gudariak ("Basque Soldiers"), the anthem of the Eusko Gudarostea (the Basque Army during the Spanish Civil War ) or with the Gernikako Arbola ("The tree of Guernica "), a popular Basque song.

Pablo Picasso painted his famous Guernica painting to commemorate the horrors of the bombing and René Iché made a violent sculpture the day after the bombing.

Pablo Picasso painted his mural sized Guernica to commemorate the horrors of the bombing.

The bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion in April 1937 heightened widespread concerns that the next major war would include extensive terror bombing attacks on civilians.

The choice to paint in black and white contrasts with the intensity of the scene depicted and invokes the immediacy of a newspaper photograph. citation Picasso painted the mural sized painting called Guernica in protest of the bombing.

The exhibits on show illustrate what Guernica has represented throughout its history for the Basques (democracy, local legal system, freedom) and what it stands for today all over the world (human rights, peace).

The Guernica jai alai court is the biggest operational court of its type in the world.