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Sylvia Evans

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwiIoJv_q7fcAhUkC8AKHe1BAAwQt9IBCDwwCg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl_VSixma864&usg=AOvVaw0N8hB9Yz6W9Xi1TDQ6zome Enlightenment , I have got to my great age and known nothing about thePicasso painting Guernica. Listening to Margaret Macmillan on radio4 on a repeat of a Reith Lecture I becam fascinated. So did the Google thingy and I am so pleased I did. What an Ignoramous am I . Hope this link works it’s wonderful.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I think it's quite an achievement to get to your age - a modest sum of years, of course - and never to have encountered Guernica. I don't know how you've done it. The only comparable experience I can offer is that I hadn't heard Elgar's Cello Concerto until it was used as the musical intro to a John Mortimer play on the radio - but I was somewhat younger then. Even so, don't know how I'd managed to miss it. Given my musical interests lie in that direction, it was a bit like never having encountered the Beatles. Now, how many other great iconic works of our time have you missed? Ah - you won't know, will you?

Michael Robinson

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Very interesting Sylvia so ta for giving the link which worked well.
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Alan Green

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Dr Janina Ramirez (Oxford Uni/ BBC) was talking about Guernica on the Art Detective podcast a couple of weeks ago. I learned a heck of a lot about the Spanish Civil War and Guernica - the village and the painting - in that 40 or so minutes
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Jim Morris

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I have known of "Guernica" for a long time, being a fervent Hispanophile and reading Garcia Lorca and the history of the Spanish Civil war avidly . I will readily admit it took me some time to fully understand Picasso's reasons for such a work (it's absolutely massive;3.49 meters (11 ft 5 in) tall and 7.76 meters (25 ft 6 in) wide) but its main function isn't about art or painting but the horrors of war . It was commisioned originally as an anti-war painting, but the bombing of Basque country Guernica influenced the topic. No war is commendable or solves anything, but Civil wars that split families are particularl horrendous. Spain's history is amazing; the Moors occupied the country for 800 years until the original inhabitants won it back and politics, religion and greed are rife in its history. It's a fascinating and beautiful country I've visited many times and even learned the language well enough to get by comfortably enough. Unfortunately, loving Andalusia, I never got to Madrid where the Guernica painting now reposes. This pic shows exactly how massive the painting really is.

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