Posted on 5-2-2003
UN
Ashamed Of Guernica
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
Security
Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.
The reason for covering this work is that this is the place
where diplomats
make statements to the press and have this work as the background.
The
Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large
blue
curtain was placed to cover the work.
Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an appropriate
background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the
work had been
covered. A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate
background
if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte,
or
Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals
shouting
with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated
by Nelson A.
Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.
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