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Art Activism & Social Change. ART FOR A CHANGE February 2003 pre-Iraq war update www.art-for-a-change.com _/
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IN
THIS UPDATE....
 PABLO
PICASSO'S "GUERNICA" CENSORED!
The United Nations covers Picasso's masterwork. Full details at: www.art-for-a-change.com/News/guernica.htm As a working Artist I was deeply troubled to hear the following news. The reproduction of Picasso's famous antiwar mural, Guernica, hanging at the entrance to the United Nations Security Council... has been censored.  Considered
to be Modern Art's greatest statement against the horrors of war,
officials at the U.N. had the mural covered with a curtain so as to
prevent embarrasment for United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell,
as he gave a speech that advocated the bombing and invasion of Iraq.
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ART FOR A CHANGE! www.art-for-a-change.com "In a decaying
society, Art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless
it wants to break faith with its social function, Art must show the
world as changeable. And help to change it." ~ Ernst Fischer
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As
Maureen Dowd, writing for the New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Powell
can't very well seduce the world into bombing Iraq surrounded on
camera by shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and
horses, 
The
censoring of Piccaso's mural is illustrative of Art's immense power.
It is a civilizing force that erases national boundaries and strengthens
human solidarity. In particular Piccaso's masterwork draws a laserbeam
focus on the madness and inhumanity of war, a message that transcends
the barbarity suffered by the small Basque village of Guernica in
1937. As Piccaso himself once said, "Art is a lie that tells the
truth." The Artist's powerful mural still speaks the truth to the
people of the world, so much so that the powerful feel compelled
to censor it."
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