Who painted the anti-war artwork Guernica in 1937?

Pablo Picasso painted the anti-war artwork Guernica in 1937.

Picasso created the monumental black, white, and gray painting after the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The attack on 26 April 1937 was carried out by German and Italian aircraft supporting Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces, and the event became an international symbol of civilian suffering.

The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. Rather than presenting a conventional heroic scene, he used fractured forms, anguished faces, animals, and stark contrasts to convey terror and destruction.

Guernica is often described as a painting, but its scale—about 3.5 metres high and 7.8 metres wide—makes it a monumental mural-like canvas. It is displayed at Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.