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In reply to the discussion: Picasso’s War: The Masterpiece that Changed the World [View all]CTyankee
(63,991 posts)15. Isn't it amazing? I had no idea either and I've seen that painting in the Prado...
Leave it to Simon Schama to search that out...
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I think DUers also appreciate the political aspect that this painting always seems to
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#8
Isn't it amazing? I had no idea either and I've seen that painting in the Prado...
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#15
Ah, you can see that progression with "One." Pollock was obsessed with Picasso...
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#26
I remember the covering of Guernica during the Powell presentation here on DU
underpants
Jan 2015
#30
Oh, you are welcome. I do enjoy writing these essays. Fun to get art out there!
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#38
About 1967 I obtained a fairly large print of Guernica on good stock paper. Vietnam, of course.
Hekate
Jan 2015
#42
Unfortunately, what was considered an atrocity then has become commonplace now.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#51
Thank you for the post & all the history with the ptg. I saw it at MOMA once c.1980.
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#63
great, wonderful history of Spanish art in the late 1930s and 40s and then to NYC.
CTyankee
Jan 2015
#64
I like Schama's explication of the lightbulb...but I've read other commentaries
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#70
I'm not surprised. Due to space constraints I had to leave out other historical
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#72
I don't like that it is reproduced in color in the tapestry as I am a bit of a purist
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#74
The story is that Nelson Rockefeller want to buy the mural but couldn't. So he
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#76