Painting I / Creative Strategies and How Artists Select
Practice question · Estimate

Gernika was bombed on 26 April 1937 and Picasso finished the canvas on 4 June. How many days is that?

Estimate on a scale from 0 days (0) to 90 days (90).

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  1. Count the days left in April, then all of May, then the days in June.
  2. Four, plus thirty-one, plus four.
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39 (answers within ±5 count)

Why

39 days. A canvas of more than 27 square metres, from an event to a finished painting, in under six weeks, with around forty-five studies made inside that period. The compression is part of why the work is what it is, and it is worth knowing before assuming that a considered painting must be a slow one.

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