Artworks are frequent targets of political protests, often damaged to attract attention, and many damaged pieces have been painstakingly restored over years.
What Makes Picasso's Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol
Guernica embodies Picasso's outrage at the 1937 bombing and functions as an evolving, politically charged monument that mobilized international anti‑fascist awareness.
Bullfights, ballet and hot jazz: inside Picasso's scandalous theatre of sex and death
Picasso's Weeping Woman and theatrical practice show his dramatic art engaged with performance, bullfighting, and anti-fascist imagery, now featured at Tate Modern.