one sunny morning in 1937, the small vinage of Guernica in northern Spain was crowded with people enjoying market day. Suddenly, something trouble happened. erman military planes appeared overhead, dropping bombs on the village below. Many people and animals were instantly injured or killed. The democratically elected government of Spain was fighting in a civil war against a military leader named Francisco Franco. It was Franco who had asked Germany to bomb Guernica. At the time, Pablo Picasso, a well-known artist from Spain, was living in Paris. A few days after the attack, Picasso saw the newspapers. On the front pages were large black-and-white photographs of the death and destruction in Guernica. The suffering, these people from his country affected Picasso deeply. Picasso became a political activist for Spain during the Spanish Civil War decided to create a painting about the bombing of Guernica to exhibit at the world in Paris that year. He knew that many people would come to the fair. He hop painting would make visitors think, talk, and be inspired to do something to help s Picasso used a large canvas, which covered an entire wall of the Spanish the fair. He used only black and white paint because of his strong reaction to hotomnwhil He showed the tragedies of war by