“Art is a lie that tells the truth.” -Pablo Picasso
I’m a little late in writing about how they covered up the reproduction of Picasso’s “Guernica” at the U.N. just days before Colin Powell arrived with his vial of fake anthrax to make the U.S. war case against Iraq. As they put it in Art Daily:
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.
The irony is funny at first. But is anyone else seriously scared by what this represents?
It’s a nice tie-in with traumatic family dynamics: the abuser’s greatest weapon is silence. If no one will look and no one will listen, then we shield our consciences from the reality of what we’re doing.
Totally scared. Those who forget (or are too arrogant to learn) the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.