Picasso painted Guernica to protest the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital of Gernika (at the request of Franco’s forces) on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in hundreds of deaths. Its reproduction in Derry in 2007 was to protest the Iraq war; it is entitled Iraqnica. Modern-looking aeroplanes, one dropping bombs, have been added at the top of the image. The original is black and white and grey but here has been coloured in a palette that matches the colour of the wall.
Painted by Jim Keys, Stephen Gargan, and Jim Collins in Glenfada Park, Derry
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Copyright © 2007 Paddy Duffy
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