Who painted Guernica?

Who painted Guernica?

• A. Pablo Picasso
• B. Edward Hopper
• C. Eugène Delacroix
• D. Claude Monet

Answer: (A)

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 as a stark political response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. The work is a large, monochrome mural whose fractured, anguished figures convey horror and suffering, signaling Picasso’s move toward a monumental, anti-war statement rather than a conventional portrait or landscape. This makes it the best choice because Guernica is widely recognized as Picasso’s defining political painting, created for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition and later housed in Madrid. The other artists are known for different subjects and styles: Edward Hopper for quiet American scenes of contemporary life, Eugène Delacroix for dramatic Romantic history painting, and Claude Monet for light-focused Impressionist landscapes.

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 as a stark political response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. The work is a large, monochrome mural whose fractured, anguished figures convey horror and suffering, signaling Picasso’s move toward a monumental, anti-war statement rather than a conventional portrait or landscape. This makes it the best choice because Guernica is widely recognized as Picasso’s defining political painting, created for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition and later housed in Madrid. The other artists are known for different subjects and styles: Edward Hopper for quiet American scenes of contemporary life, Eugène Delacroix for dramatic Romantic history painting, and Claude Monet for light-focused Impressionist landscapes.