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.
