GUERNICA

Quote for Today - June 2,  2011

"During World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris. An inquisitive German officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a photograph of Guernica lying on a table. 'Did you do that?' he asked Picasso. 'No, you did,' said Picasso."


From page 451 of The Little,  Brown Book of Anecdotes,  General Editor Clifton Fadiman.


Painting on to: "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]



To  get a fuller impact of the painting on top, "Tap, tap" the picture itself with your cursor arrow.





Here is the opening comment about the painting from Wikipedia: "Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso to create a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris."