Word: guernica
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...aborted calf out of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, by the bull of Guernica...
...traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
Meyer Schapiro will lecture on "Another Look at Guernica" today at 8:30 p.m. in the Carpenter Center Lecture Hall...
...cubist portraits could be seen in sequence. From the U.S. came 46 key paintings from private collections and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art's pivotal 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that heralded the beginning of cubism. Only outstanding omission: the Modern's 1937 Guernica, which the museum considered "too fragile to travel...
...critics expect Picasso to be a significant playwright. More disturbingly, some critics feel that Picasso in his later decades is painting mainly to amuse himself. Clement Greenberg in this month's Art forum judged that since Picasso's famous Guernica, the brutal 1937 mural depicting the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, "Picasso's art has ceased being indispensable." London's Sunday Times Art Critic John Russell acknowledges that Picasso is still "the perpetual president of modern art," then adds: "This indisputably great artist has sacrificed too much in recent years to immediacy...