Picasso's "Guernica" is the image of a disproportionate attack on unarmed civilians to demoralize and subjugate a whole population. This changed the "rules" of the traditional war and opened a new scenario: targeting civilians became a ...See morePicasso's "Guernica" is the image of a disproportionate attack on unarmed civilians to demoralize and subjugate a whole population. This changed the "rules" of the traditional war and opened a new scenario: targeting civilians became a priority to anyone looking for political aims, from every ideology, external or internal enemies, or even the governments. A reading of the painting from the present must take this into consideration: Picasso's intuition to guess in that action a turning point that ushered in today's use of terror against the civilians. Written by
G. Peydró, Guillermo
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