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The Guernica Tapestry, Whitechapel Gallery, London
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by Patricia Turo | March 31, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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In a time of uncertainty and with wars and atrocities going on in different parts of the world. Pisacco's Guernica Tapestry (not the original painting) screams out to the leaders of the world at the G20 meeting in London.
Picasso's fury screams out still
REUTERS
Picasso let two Parisian weavers make three exact copies of the picture after realising his original was too fragile to be taken around the world
Welcome back! Picasso's Guernica, that supremely sombre evocation of the destructive powers of war, first went on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1939, after it had been exhibited in Paris. The painting, a commemoration of the destruction of the village of Guernica by Franco's forces, had been made by Picasso in his Paris studio in 1937, in a furious outpouring of pity and anger.
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at 05:39 on April 1st, 2009
It is a great piece of art and philosophy behind it, however I do have my doubts that our great leaders have the intellect or the emphatic to see this master piece for what it is and represents and may reflect up on it and act wisely with in its spiritual guidance. Maybe I am wrong though.