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Guernica

Guernica

art material performance visual art artwork core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Pablo Picasso, artist

Canon Rationale

A core modern painting, included for antiwar art, political modernism, mural-scale composition, Spanish Civil War memory, and twentieth-century art reception.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 92.

Evidence

  • museum record: Museo Reina Sofia collection record for Picasso's Guernica.
  • field survey: Smarthistory, 'Picasso, Guernica'.

Audit Flags

museum record bias, overfamiliarity bias, access preservation required

Sensitivity Flags

museum record bias

Completion unit: study the artwork through high-quality image documentation and art-historical context. The evidence pages are support material, not the tracked object.

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