Guernica, 1937

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"No, painting was not invented to decorate houses. It is an instrument of war for attack and defence against the enemy."
-- Pablo Picasso

"In modern painting, every brushstroke has become precision work," the great draughtsman once said. Despite his brilliant facility, Picasso had to struggle over and over again for decades to achieve this precision anew. The drawings and prints illustrate the scope of his accomplishment.
--Karl Ruhrberg, Art of the 20th Century (2005)

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