Guernica is one of most iconic images of the 20th century. The painting depicts the German bombing of Guernica, Spain in 1939. Picasso was in Paris working on a piece commissioned for the World’s Fair when he received word of this horrific attack. His inspiration for the monochromatic painting seems to have come from newsreels, newspaper articles and photographs of the devastation that was left. Although the painting was done in a very short time, its impact has resonated long after the event. If time permits, I would like to have participants do a schematic drawing of the painting to discover how Picasso organized the composition and how that relates to classical design in the way paintings from the Renaissance were configured,