The Art of Politics and the Politics of
Art in Madrid
An intense guided art tour to
Madrid, Segovia and Toledo ends fittingly with the contemplation of Picasso’s Guernica in the Reina Sofia Museum. This
painting is on one level rawly simple – basically a long scream far more
visceral than, say, the existentialist and easily parodied howl of Munch. But
the Guernica scream or, rather,
screams are emitted by and among implacable and anguished images that draw on
deliberately oblique and fragmented references to Spanish art and Spanish
history through art.
