Masterpiece Moment: Guernica

There are paintings you admire. And then there are paintings that refuse to let you look away. In this Masterpiece Moment, James William Moore dives into Guernica by Pablo Picasso—a work that doesn’t document war so much as detonate it across the surface of the canvas. Created in response to the 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, this monumental painting rejects tidy storytelling in favor of fracture, distortion, and emotional truth. There are no heroes here. N...