Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always (so to speak) personal. When a deranged Hungarian-Australian tourist named Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's with a hammer in 1972, it was because he believed himself to be the son of God. When the future art dealer Tony Shafrazi vandalized Picasso's Guernica in the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, he moronically fancied he was making a point about art politics...
...equipped with phallic chins. The second is the persistence of religious motifs that no European artist was likely to grasp but that were of deep significance to Lam -- the symbols of Santeria ceremonies. Why do Lam's women have heads like horses? Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known as a caballo, a "horse" carrying the spirit...
...navy van in Madrid, wounding 13. Although Spain's 17 regions are gaining more autonomy, the national-identity issue remains explosive. Catalans and Basques, who control their own schools, police forces and television stations, envision an even more independent future under a Euro-umbrella. The Basque country, says Guernica Mayor Eduardo Vallejo, "should be the 13th star on the E.C. flag...
...compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...
...wonder connoisseurs call it the museum lover's museum. The Madrid structure has works by virtually every consequential artist, from the medieval masters to the Italian, Flemish and Dutch schools to Spain's most prominent painter, Picasso, whose monumental Guernica has come home after nearly 50 years of exile...