Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. What event/circumstance was the above artwork intended to show? What other message did its artist intend to convey to the world? Include the artwork’s title and its artist in your response.

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Pablo Picasso’s *Guernica* was intended to show the 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The attack was carried out by German and Italian forces supporting Francisco Franco, and it caused widespread death and destruction among civilians. Picasso also intended to convey the horror and suffering caused by war and to send a powerful antiwar message to the world.