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Guernica in the museum, displayed in a gallery with spotlights, a bench and a rope barrier before the huge mural. A detailed art printable; free PDF.
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Download PDFPrintA museum gallery with Guernica on the wall, spotlights on a ceiling track, a bench, an info stand, wooden floors and a rope barrier on posts.
Keep Guernica in grays and color the room in warm tones for contrast.
Draw a floor plan of the gallery and mark where you would stand to see the painting.
Picasso painted Guernica in his studio on Rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris.
Guernica in the museum is one of the most visited sights in Madrid today, but the painting took more than forty years to reach Spain. Picasso painted it in Paris in 1937 for the World's Fair, and it went on a long journey after that.
After the fair, the mural toured several countries to raise awareness of the Spanish Civil War. When World War II broke out, it stayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where it remained for decades and inspired many American artists. Picasso insisted it should not go to Spain until democracy returned.
Picasso died in 1973 without seeing that day. In 1981, with democracy restored, Guernica finally arrived in Madrid and was displayed behind bulletproof glass at the Casón del Buen Retiro. In 1992 it moved to the Reina Sofía Museum, Spain's national museum of modern art, where it hangs today.
The canvas is huge and fragile, so it no longer travels, since every move could damage it. Visitors often stand before it in silence, studying each figure. Seeing Guernica in person helps you understand its size and the power of its message against war.
Idea by Blackline Press.
