Q 01/05

In Guernica, what is the woman at the far left edge holding in her arms?

A) An oil lamp

B) A broken sword

C) A dead child

D) A white dove

Answer · why

C) A dead child

A dead child. Most of the town's men were away at the front, so the raid fell mainly on women and children, and they fill Picasso's canvas.

Q 02/05

Guernica answers the 1937 bombing of a Basque town during which conflict?

A) The Second World War

B) The First World War

C) The Spanish Civil War

D) The Rif War

Answer · why

C) The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939 with Franco's victory, so Picasso sent the canvas abroad and refused to let it hang in Spain while Franco ruled.

Q 03/05

To which museum was Guernica moved in 1992?

A) Museu Picasso, Barcelona

B) Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

C) Museo del Prado, Madrid

D) MoMA, New York

Answer · why

B) Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, took it when Spain's twentieth-century art was gathered under one roof, a move that defied Picasso's own wish for where it ...

Q 04/05

Guernica is painted in which palette?

A) Blue and rose

B) Grey, black and white

C) Red, black and gold

D) Earth browns and ochres

Answer · why

B) Grey, black and white

Grey, black and white echo the press photographs that brought Picasso the news, giving the mural the immediacy of a newspaper picture.

Q 05/05

Roughly how wide is Picasso's mural Guernica?

A) 80 centimetres

B) 2.5 metres

C) 7.8 metres

D) 25 metres

Answer · why

C) 7.8 metres

About 7.8 metres wide and 3.5 tall, it was made for Spain's pavilion, which Picasso had visited to see the space his mural was to fill.