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Guernica was a masterpiece of Picasso with great influence and historical significance in 1930s, depicting German Air Force bombing Spanish town Guernica in 1937. Commissioned by the government of the Republic of Spain in 1937, this painting was created for the International Exposition held in Paris Spain Pavilion. This painting combined Cubism, realism and surrealism, showing signs of pain, suffering and the beast. In the right, a woman raising her hands fell from the burning house, and another woman rushed into the center of the Picasso painting, in the left, there was a mother and a dead child; on the ground, there was a warrior dead body, with one of his hands holding a sword and flowers growing aside the sword, the center was a nag, assassinated by a spear, there was a standing cattle in the left, and a beak bird between cattle head and horse head, there was an arm holding a lamp shining with an intense light on the bloody scene. The whole painting was painted in black, white and grey. At the beginning of 1937, Picasso accepted the entrustment of the SpanishRepublic, to create a decorative mural for the Paris World Expo Pavilion of Spain. During this process, on April 26, 1937, the German Air Force bombed Spanish Barkis town Guernica in the north of Spain. The three-hour bombing killed and wounded many civilians and made Guernica flattened. The Germany crime sparked international public condemns. Filled with righteous indignation, Picasso decided to take this event as a mural creation subject to express his protest for the war criminals and mourning for the dead. Then Guernica included in the masterpiece surrealism painting history was born. Over the past 70 years, this masterpiece had become one of the warnings of war culture symbols and also made Guernica tragedy forever stay in humans scarred memory. There was no plane, no bomb, only the brutal, horror, pain, despair, death and cry were accumulated. The trampled flowers, crushed limbs, crying mother, screaming help, man lying down and dying neighing horses. These were the silent complaint against the fascist atrocities. The painter used half abstract cubism style broke the boundaries of space, filled with angry protests and made the achievements of the heroic epic. The black and white fragments were full of endless gloom and fear, reflecting the strong compassion of the painter for the suffering of mankind. 
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