From: lukas.mariman@REMOVETHISdommel.be   
      
   Gnomus wrote:   
   > In article   
   > <21f3dd60-9e0e-49f7-8d89-4b189c9a90a5@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,   
   > Ubik  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Feb 3, 6:46 am, Eberhard Schefold  wrote:   
   >>> Ubik wrote:   
   >>>> But let's look at this from another perspective. A painting carries   
   >>>> its author's view of the world, with all his ideas, intentions. You   
   >>>> could be looking at "La Guernica" and dismissing Picasso, you might   
   >>>> think it represents an orgy involving zoophilia.It would be your   
   >>>> opinion, and you're entitled to it, nobody disputes that. But we   
   >>>> all know (and accept) that his painting depicts the bombing of   
   >>>> Guernica by Nazi Germany on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish   
   >>>> Civil War. Why? Because he says so.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's totally clear that "La Guernica" doesn't depict an orgy.   
   >>   
   >> To you it is. Just as is totally clear for some that Deck's a rep.   
   >>   
   >>> These   
   >>> faces and postures express panic, terror and agony, not lust.   
   >>   
   >> That's open to interpretation of course, since his painting style is   
   >> not exactly photographic; one that comes with absolute zero knowledge   
   >> about the background of the painting, will not necesarilly see it as   
   >> terror and agony.   
   >>   
   >> The point is, the author's testimony about his work is usually   
   >> accepted, and people who'd oppose that cannot simply claim to know   
   >> better.   
   >   
   >   
   > Except in this case, the first, most widely-known version of the work   
   > doesn't have the unicorn dream.   
      
   A good reason not to watch it anymore. As far as I am concerned we are   
   talking sabotage here. It is obvious to all of us regulars, old-timers here,   
   that it SHOULD have been in there.   
      
   > What if Picasso went back years later and painted some swastikas into   
   > that painting?  Would it make it better?   
      
   It depends; if that was his *original intention*...   
      
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