15+ Pablo Picasso Guernica Original Background. Much of the painting's emotional power comes from its overwhelming size, approximately eleven feet tall and twenty five feet wide. 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.
Pablo picasso's motivation for painting the scene in this great work was the news of the german aerial bombing of the basque town whose name the guernica has attracted a number of controversial interpretations, doubtless due in part to the deliberate use in the painting of only greyish tones.
Much of the painting's emotional power comes from its overwhelming size, approximately eleven feet tall and twenty five feet wide. Much of the painting's emotional power comes from its overwhelming size, approximately eleven feet tall and twenty five feet wide. While numerous works by pablo picasso have been crowned masterpieces, guernica stands alone in the artist's prolific oeuvre. The work was painted as an immediate.