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His early professional training had given him no opportunity to draw in a childlike way himself, nor had his own children prompted in him an awareness of the child's way of seeing the world.
It was painted as a reaction to the aerial bombing of guernica, spain by german and italian forces during the spanish civil war in 1937. The government of the spanish republic acquired the mural guernica from picasso in 1937. When world war ii broke out, the artist decided that the painting should remain in the custody of new york's museum of modern. Guernica, 1937 by pablo picasso.
