Art, Stories, and Picasso's Images of War and Peace

Hello beloved reader,

Picasso’s Guernica is perhaps a fitting image to match the sad and scary fact-of-life that ‘the orange one’ will once again, be a ‘so-called’ president.

I took this pic at the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, in a rare space between viewers

If you Google Picasso’s Guernica, Wiki will tell you, “Its in-depth interpretation is controversial,” and that it is “a symbol of the terrible suffering that war inflicts on human beings.” It is, “regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history.”

Standing right in front of this enormous piece of art moved me. The sheer size, at 11.5 feet tall by 25.5 feet long (349.3 x 776.6 cm) is impressive, let alone the energy the art conveys.

Are we not due for a major evolution of consciousness so that we can move beyond the insanity of war?

Listening to Eckhart Tolle again recently, he spoke of how so much of what we consider “normal,” is insane.

Can we learn from the artists, the dreamers, the mystics?