Pablo Picasso’s Guernica is one of the most profound anti-war artworks to come out of the twentieth century. It’s beautiful and devastating and sends viewers who never experienced Franco/Blitzkrieg/war period into pensive silence.
A tapestry replica of Guernica was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller and hangs at the entrance to the Security Council room at the United Nations building in New York City.
That, incidentally, is the very spot where Colin Powell pled his case in 2003 for invading Iraq.
The irony was not lost on Powell. Guernica was covered by a curtain.
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Oh wow…this is ironic
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I heard about this in my art history class last year.
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(side note, Guernica is my desktop!!) But really now.
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