Introduction to Picasso's "Guernica": Guernica is the name of a place in the Basque Country that was tragically bombed during the war. The Spanish government paid Picasso a large amount of money to create a work based on this theme. On a canvas that is 3.5 meters high and 7.82 meters long, Picasso reproduced the strong pain and accusation of the city in dark tones of black, white and gray. Since the Franco government did not want the painting to return to Spain, the work was kept in the Museum of Modern Art in New York after its creation. It entered the Prado Museum in 1981 and was transferred to the Reina Sofia Art Center in 1993.