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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Ukraine<\/a>‘s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a one-day visit Tuesday to Spain<\/a> and seized the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso<\/a>‘s \u201cGuernica.\u201d<\/p>\n It was a move laden with symbolism.<\/p>\n Among the last century’s most famous paintings, \u201cGuernica\u201d depicts the horrors of war \u2014 specifically the bombardment of civilian targets. The enormous, black-grey-and-white painting features screaming women, flailing horses and a gored bull. Picasso used them to represent the bombing by Nazi and fascist Italian war planes of the town named Guernica in 1937, during Spain’s Civil War.<\/p>\n The painting’s distorted, cubist figures have since become a symbol of suffering, violence and resistance. At the United Nations, a tapestry of it hangs at the entry to the Security Council’s chamber, where Russia is one of five nations with a permanent seat. <\/p>\n Zelenskyy referenced the painting before. In April 2022, while remotely addressing Spain\u2019s parliament just months into Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said: <\/p>\n \u201cImagine that people now \u2014 in Europe \u2014 live for weeks in basements to save lives. From shelling, from air bombs. Daily! April 2022 \u2014 and the reality in Ukraine is as if it\u2019s April 1937. When the whole world learned the name of one of your cities \u2014 Guernica.\u201d<\/p>\n The painting has had other famous visitors. Former U.S. President Barack Obama viewed it in 2018 on a visit with Spain’s King Felipe VI. The novelist Salman Rushdie<\/a> came to see \u201cGuernica,\u201d too, a few years after a stabbing attack that cost him his vision in one eye. <\/p>\n