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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 februar 2003 / Time Line February 3, 2003
Version 3.52. Februar 2003, 4. Februar 2003
02/03/2003
Guernica
Reproduction Covered at UN
NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of
the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a
curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the
place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this
work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of
war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the
work.
Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an
appropriate background for the cameras." He was questioned as to
why the work had been covered.
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.
This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by
Nelson A. Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.
Kilde: http://artdaily.com/news.asp?not=11.
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