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Simon Schama's Power of Art: Episode 7: Picasso

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Episode 7: Picasso

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The story of Guernica, Picasso's extraordinary artistic response to a brutal massacre.

Simon Schama on the making of eight great works of art. The story of Picasso's Guernica, from the bombing massacre that inspired it, to Picasso's artistic response.

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces. He tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response.

The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity.

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Simon Schama recounts moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces.

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces.

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