Zelensky visits Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine’s bombing

MADRID: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky made a one-day visit Tuesday to Spain and seized the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” It was a move laden with symbolism. Among the last century’s most famous paintings, “Guernica” depicts the horrors of war — specifically the bombardment of civilian targets. The enormous, black-grey-and-white painting features screaming women, flailing horses and a gored bull. Picasso used them to represent the bombing by Nazi and fascist Italian war planes of the town named Guernica in 1937, during Spain’s Civil War.

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