Doing some work on Guernica today. Its Picasso's first propagandist work and was an attempt to stop the rush to Civil war in Spain in the late thirties. He was so struck with "The systematic destruction of an undefended town behind the lines, ignoring possible military targets, whose object was the demoralisation of the civilian population" (Christopher Green) that he spent five weeks creating this massive 25 x 11ft canvas which uses the terror of a confrontation with a bull/minotaur in a context of contemporary, real events. As Green writes, this mural was a very "public political statement, a statement that externalised his [Picasso's] most 'inner' obsessions in the service of the 'outer' world of events."
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