Artist Amarie Bergman, who has seen Picasso's original Guernica, took an element of the painting and made it as a backdrop for the opening paragraph of an essay I began writing some four years ago. I thought the taste for war would have abated by now. An excerpt:"As the US made its case for what was to become a misguided and tragic war the very icon that might have given the UN members and the American public pause in their deliberation was banished from view.
A tapestry copy of Picasso’s Guernica, hanging outside the entrance to the Security Council, was draped."
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