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Political Purposes of Art

Question 16 • TX-Art I A

Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. List the following information in complete sentences: - artist - title of the artwork - the person/institute who commissioned it and why

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Pablo Picasso painted *Guernica*. The Spanish Republican government commissioned the work for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. The government wanted a mural to represent Spain at the exposition. Picasso used the painting to condemn the bombing of Guernica and show the suffering caused by war.

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