Setanta
Beautiful piece. Very very nicely done.
I have always confused my C's and S's - thanks c.i.!
Timber:
If I had your livestock on my land, we'd be eating VERY well !!!!
Byron
In my dictionary, it's spelled "Picaso."
c.i.
To continue a line of thought that I injected earlier, I believe one of most dismal failures has been caused by the obvious intellectual vacuum that is suffocating the world today. It is not that there is a lack of intellectuals---far from it---they are everywhere. The real problem is that they are all engaged in petty name calling and hysterical hand wringing forecasting doom and gloom. They should instead by trying to help the citizens of the world understand the failings of that thing we call human nature. I don't like the term because it is another vague creation of our limited language. I only use because it seems to have a universal definition that most people are familiar with. It is like the term common sense----everyone knows it but yet nobody knows it. It is never changing---like time, it is constant. It is from human nature that all things, good and bad, spring forth. During times when we are all threatened by a common enemy---unity springs forth. During times of prosperity---greed becomes dominant. During times when we need inspiration we look to our heroes.
Why is it that our intellectuals are absent or other wise engaged--just when we need them.
Here's a picture of the stub I got when I visited the Musee Picasso in Barcelona some years ago.
Here's a picture of the stub I got when I visited the Musee Picasso in Barcelona some years ago.
It seems to me your spelling is correct.
c.i.
perception, I don't believe it's the intellectual vacuum, the name calling, and petty arguments, that fosters the world problems of today. That's the reason why so many we consider to be intellectuals differ in their opinions on what the best solutions for conflict. It's also my belief that it doesn't take all that much intelligence to determine what is right and what is wrong. If whaterever you do harms other people for anticipated wrongs, it's wrong, no matter how much justification one might have. Most people have evil or violent thoughts. It's wrong to prosecute those people for their thoughts; and justice requires that we must react only to evil and violent actions. Guessing must be taken out of the equation, IMHO. c.i.
ci
forgot to say thanks for appreciating British support for the Americans. Thanks. Problem is we support you as a friend when you're right, but don't give you enough friendly advice when you're not! imho
Heah, Steve - I believe you are supporting us right now, Thanks for the right belief and direction. bw
ps ci
didn't you know that printer was fired for making such a gross spelling mistake?
BillW, I vaguely recall having heard something of that ... could you do an old codger a favor and supply a link elaborating on the censorship? Thanks.
Yeah, c.i., Picasso's 1937 Guernica
" ... Only one humane, political work of art in the last fifty years has
achieved real fame -- Picasso's Guernica, 1937. It is the last of the
line of formal images of battle and suffering that runs from Uccello's
Rout of San Romano through Tintoretto to Rubens, and thence to Goya's
Third of May and Delacroix's Massacre at Chios. It was inspired by an
act of war, the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
The destruction of Guernica was carried out by German aircraft, manned
by German pilots, at the request of the Spanish Nationalist commander,
General Emilio Mola. Because the Republican government of Spain had
granted autonomy to the Basques, Guernica was the capital city of an
independent republic. Its razing was taken up by the world press,
beginning with The Times in London, as the arch-symbol of Fascist
barbarity. Thus Picasso's painting shared the exemplary fame of the
event, becoming as well known a memorial of catastrophe as Tennyson's
Charge of the Light Brigade had been eighty years before ... "
(From: The Shock of the New, Art and the Century of Change,
bu Robert Hughes, Thames and Hudson 1980 and 1991. Reproduced
without permission. I hope he doesn't mind)
timber
Thanks, BillW. I still don't see that a specific "US Request" was involved. In the below-quoted and two other articles I fopund, only an un-named diplomat was cited. That diplomat may or may not have been American, but seems not to have been identified as such. The Statement is from Eckhard, UN, not US, Press Secretary.
Quote:NEW YORK.- 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.
No big deal, really. It's just Political Correctness on an International Scale.
timber
