"Guernica" represents scenes of death, violence, brutality, suffering, and helplessness, without indicating their immediate causes, but they are obvious. It is said that in 1940 Pablo Picasso was summoned to the Gestapo in Paris. Speech immediately went about the picture. "Did you do it?" - "No, you did it."
The huge canvas-fresco of Guernica, written by Picasso in 1937, tells of the raid of the volunteer unit of the Luftwaffe to the city of Guernica, as a result of which the six thousandth city was completely destroyed. The picture was written literally in a month - the first days of work on a picture of Picasso worked for 10-12 hours, and already in the first drafts one could see the main idea. This is one of the best illustrations of the nightmare of fascism, as well as human cruelty and grief.