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After the bombing of Guernica in 1937 and of Rotterdam in 1940, it was commonly assumed that terror bombing was a part of Luftwaffe doctrine.
Symbol ( 1953 ) relates to Picasso's Guernica, which was a favorite work of Alston's.
The town of Guernica was founded by Count Tello on April 28, 1366, at the intersection of the road from Bermeo to Durango with the road from Bilbao to Elantxobe and Lekeitio.
When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile it became customary for the king of Castile to visit Guernica and swear an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.
On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.
The town was devastated, though the Biscayan assembly and the Oak of Guernica survived.
As time passed, the role of separate assemblies was superseded by the single assembly in Guernica, and by 1512, its oak, known as the Gernikako Arbola, became symbolic of the traditional rights of the Basque people as a whole.
A tree planted in 1860 to replace it died in 2004 and was in turn replaced ; the sapling that had been chosen to become the official Oak of Guernica is also sick so the tree will not be replaced until the earth around the site has been restored to health.
People would flock to Guernica not just from the immediate vicinity but from all over the province, so that the town was packed.
This figure, set up on April 27, 1988, was commissioned by the Basque Government to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica.
The bombing of Guernica on the afternoon of 26 April 1937 – a mission used as a testing ground for the German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion – was probably the most infamous event of the war and inspired Picasso's painting.
One infamous operation was the bombing of Guernica in the Basque country.
It has been suggested that the bombing of Guernica was carried out for military tactical reasons, in support of ground operations, but the town was not directly involved in any fighting at that point in time.
Although Picasso was concerned that his reinterpretations of Velázquez's painting would be seen merely as copies rather than unique representations, the enormous works — including the largest he had produced since Guernica in 1937 — earned a position of relevance in the Spanish canon of art.
In his decade of making documentary short films, Resnais had established his interest in and talent for collaboration with leading figures in other branches of the arts ; with the painters who were the subjects of his early works ; with writers ( Eluard in Guernica, Cayrol in Nuit et Brouillard, Queneau in Le Chant du styrène ); with musicians ( Darius Milhaud in Gauguin, Hanns Eisler in Nuit et Brouillard, Pierre Barbaud in Le Chant du styrène ); and with other film-makers ( Resnais was the editor of Agnès Varda's first film, La Pointe courte, and co-directed with Chris Marker Les statues meurent aussi ).
The title given to the operation commanded by Wolfram von Richthofen, which saw the town of Guernica bombed during the Spanish Civil War, was named after the island.
The 1978 constitution, accepted the particular Basque laws ( fueros ) In 1979 the Statute of Guernica was approved and Biscay, Araba and Gipuzkoa formed the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.
The Prado does not normally show modern art, but Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica was exhibited in the Prado for some time after its return to Spain after the restoration of democracy, until it was moved to the Museo Reina Sofía in 1992 as part of a transfer of all works later than the early 19th century to other buildings for space reasons.
Prior to World War II, the Ju 52 was utilized in the Spanish Civil War, where it took part in the Condor Legion's destructive raids on Durango and Guernica in 1937 which illustrated to the world — for the first time — the destructive potential and horror of strategic bombing.
While dive-bombers were devastatingly effective against undefended targets, such as Guernica and Rotterdam, they were very vulnerable to attack by fighter aircraft, and their use by Germany against Britain with its effective Royal Air Force was rapidly discontinued.

Guernica and on
During the war, the Condor Legion undertook the bombing of Guernica which had a tremendous psychological effect on the populations of Europe.
The exhibits on show illustrate what Guernica has represented throughout its history for the Basques ( democracy, local legal system, freedom ) and what it stands for today all over the world ( human rights, peace ).
A mosaic of tiles which depicts in puzzle form Picasso's great work Guernica, the original of which is currently on display at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
The inscription beneath this impressive mural expresses the desire of local people for the original canvas to be put on display in the town which inspired its creation: Guernica.
* _dk. htm Painter and art educator Dorothy Koppelman writes on " Aesthetic Realism and Picasso's Guernica: For Life "
The Luftwaffe did not apparently have an official policy of terror bombing in which civilians were deliberately targeted, but the effects of the raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests in the democracies.
Communism wall painting in Jawaharlal Nehru University, based on Picasso's Guernica ( painting ) | Guernica mural.
The deliberate Bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion in April 1937 contributed to widespread concerns that the next major war would include extensive terror bombing attacks on civilians.
In his report of the Falangist attack on Guernica, British journalist George Steer reports finding German bomb casings, connecting Luftwaffe planes with the attack.
The first use of the term " weapon of mass destruction " on record is by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1937 in reference to the aerial bombardment of Guernica, Spain:
In a further protest of MoMA's decision to pull out of the project, copies of the poster were carried by members of the AWC into the MoMA and unfurled in front of Picasso's painting Guernica ( on loan to MoMA at the time ) the painting depicts the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon innocent civilians.
) Resnais continued to address artistic subjects in Gauguin ( 1950 ) and Guernica ( 1950 ), which examined the Picasso painting based on the 1937 bombing of the town, and presented it to the accompaniment of a text written by Paul Éluard.
A tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica depicting a massacre of innocent women and children during the Spanish civil war is displayed on the wall of the United Nations building in New York City, at the entrance to the Security Council room, demonstrably as a spur to the conscience of representatives from the nation states.
A tapestry copy of Pablo Picasso's Guernica on the wall of the United Nations building at the entrance to the Security Council room.
The Spanish Pavilion was built right beside the Nazi Germany Pavilion, while in Spain the Civil War was going on and the Nazis had just bombed the town of Guernica.
For the artistic content of the building, Sert called on his Spanish artist friends Picasso, Miró, and Calder ; Picasso's contribution was Guernica and became the focal attraction of Sert's design.
* 1st prize on Student's Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, ( 1978 ) for Guernica
The Basque ground forces were in full retreat towards Bilbao, through the town of Guernica, which was attacked on 26 April in one of the most controversial attacks of the Spanish Civil War.
Several explanations were put forward by the Nationalists, including blaming the attack on the Republicans, that the attack on the town had been a prolonged offensive, or that the Rentería bridge, outside Guernica, was the true target.

Guernica and display
Though he accepted the invitation to display a piece, he remained uninspired until he heard of the bombing of Guernica.
The display of Guernica was accompanied by a poem by Paul Éluard, and the pavilion displayed works by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder, both of whom were sympathetic to the Republican cause.

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