The Spanish people, the genius Picassothe best museums and, most especially, the martyr city of Guernicathey deserve the truth about the great and famous painting.
The question that a great journalist asked the AI, 10 days ago, in the presence of colleagues:
It was easy to answer by consulting the press archives of newspapers from 1937 to 1944, from The Sun until ABCfrom The New York Times until the Corriere della Serafrom Humanity until Time, etc..
All these files, indestructible? without exception, they refer to the inauguration in Paris, on May 25, 1937, by the president of the French republic Albert Lebrunof the International exhibition of arts and techniques applied to modern life.
Of, among others, the pavilion of the Spanish Republic.
In one of its corridors the 349.3 x 776.6 oil painting that the genius Picasso finished painting on June 4, 1937 was displayed: screams of children, screams of women, screams of doves.
As he graduated during the following seven years in the various exhibitions he attended without exception.
On April 3, 1940, genius Picasso made a decision as surprising as it was spectacular, in an invaded France, inspired by Marshal Philippe Petain (former ambassador and friend of Franco).
At that time he will ask for French nationality, which will be rejected.
As an example, a reproduction of one square meter from the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris.
On October 5, 1944, the French communist newspaper dedicated half of its first page to the accession of the genius Picasso to the French Communist Party (to the surprise of the Spanish party).
In the large photo (Paris already liberated by a Spanish division?) he is shown with Jacques Duclos y Marcel CachinFrench communist leaders. Without any Spanish.
Bid, millions… last Friday?
Months after that moment, the painting by the genius Picasso will begin to be called (at first modestly) by the followers of his new cause, Guernica.
It will then be said that the brilliant and surprising idea of the new title will be Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin while he tremendously bullied those responsible in the world.
It is understood that Wittgenstein came by boat (yes, yes) to see him to propose to be the teacher of his best. And perhaps we could even come to understand that the perpetrator of hundreds of thousands of crimes against innocent people begged (at Dostoyevsky) to the prodigious Mikhail Bulgakov so that he would not leave Russia, as Stalin begged him on the phone. The novel will be saved from the various burnings by the only copy that his best admirer had published for himself: Stalin.
Picasso, stupefied and angry, did he believe that Stalin had changed the title of his painting?
He took solace in his very special girlfriend. Dora Maar I could not even imagine, nor even accept, the tremendous crime of Guernica of your favorites. Well, until the end of his life (July 17, 1997) he believed in different ‘paradise’ and condemned anyone who did not have such horrible ideas? like the ones she professed.
But he seduced the genius Picasso, planting, at great speed, a knife between his five fingers at the Deux Magots in Paris in 1935.
[Picasso, en mayo de 1968, presidirá la ocupación del Colegio de España por estudiantes poetas y escritores, por mi simple petición telefónica.]
I hope and wish, as I care, that the glory of Picasso’s genius endures and increases forever and ever, and that he has ascended to the Sun through the Milky Way.
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Pseudo-arrabalesco: “Was there ever an end that was not a means?”
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Until next week, if Pan will lend me life.
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