Nice piece Tania and I really enjoyed the survey as it gave me the opportunity to recall my most powerful museum experience. I was in Spain during 9-11 and left for the US a week following. On Sept 17 I spent time at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the home of Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica." The massive painting is a reaction to Hitler's powerful German air force, acting in support of Franco, bombed the village of Guernica in northern Spain, a city of no strategic military value, in 1937. It was the first aerial saturation bombing of a civilian population. There was a bench in front of the painting and I listened to Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" on my headphones while absorbing the painting and it's massive message to me.
Nice piece Tania and I really enjoyed the survey as it gave me the opportunity to recall my most powerful museum experience. I was in Spain during 9-11 and left for the US a week following. On Sept 17 I spent time at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the home of Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica." The massive painting is a reaction to Hitler's powerful German air force, acting in support of Franco, bombed the village of Guernica in northern Spain, a city of no strategic military value, in 1937. It was the first aerial saturation bombing of a civilian population. There was a bench in front of the painting and I listened to Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" on my headphones while absorbing the painting and it's massive message to me.
Wow. Thank you for sharing this story, Ann. So vivid and palpable and relevant.