Picasso's Guernica
1937 · Work
Pablo Picasso's monumental anti-war painting commissioned for the 1937 Paris Exposition; defining work of 20th-century political art.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, Spain
Around 1937
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)