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Just how clean were the bombs which that "Christian gentleman," the Caudillo, dropped on helpless Guernica after the city had surrendered...
...Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless Guernica. Tied together with texts culled from sources that range from the Bible to the works of Carl Jung, Mrs. Norman's show is sure to make the viewer ponder even if he does not agree with the far-reaching thesis...
Judging from this exhibition one night imagine, that the schism between poetry and Strum and Drang lies in intensity of emotion or dramatic nature of the subject. Actually Goya's "Disasters of War," certainly more graphic than anything here, or Picasso's "Guernica," more symbolic and abstract than anything here, answer an emphatic no. For if Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, et al, utter an emotional cry from the blackness of chaos and confusion, it is Picasso and Goya who offer, with emotion disciplined. "right" and "inevitable," an answer which cannot help being true...
...Undoubtedly one of the great pictures of our day is Picasso's Guernica mural, just as he himself is one of the greatest artists of our time . . . But the fresh symbols that come forth from this masterly hand reveal the scars and shocks of our sad era, with not even the faintest hints of a new integration ... At times the emotion is so lacerating that the next step beyond would be either insanity or suicide, violence and nihilism; the death of the human personality. This is the message that modern art brings to us at its purest...
...were more than kind. "Extraordinarily powerful and moving," one wrote. Another praised it as being "in the pictorial language of a 20th Century painter who is aghast at man's inhumanity to man." Lebrun's technique is clearly 20th Century, since it derives from Picasso's Guernica-done in 1937. That tormented masterpiece has a less pretentious theme (the bombing of a Spanish town) and a saving element of compassion that Lebrun's lacks...