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Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
by Decius at 5:42 pm EST, Feb 5, 2003

NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.

A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.

RE: Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
by Elonka at 11:19 pm EST, Feb 5, 2003

Decius wrote:
] NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the
] entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has
] been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work
] is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to
] the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso
] work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue
] curtain was placed to cover the work.
]
] A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate
] background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N.
] John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with
] women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing
] the suffering of the bombings.

I'm not certain, but I believe that this is a link to the image in question:

  http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GUERNICA_dk.htm

A closeup of one section is here:

  http://www.impressionism.ru/images/Picasso/guernica.jpg

And a lengthier article with more background, in the Washington Times here:

  http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030203-13680812.htm

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