Yeah, it resides at the Reina Sofía. Yeah, it's pretty great. I guess. I probably would have taken a photo if there hadn't been so many people standing in front of it.
After the jump, a poem I wrote some time ago based on the painting.
Horses Don’t
Like Modern Art
The terrified horse in Picasso’s Guernica
Is screaming not because its side got ripped
Open nor because the little Basque town
In which it once peacefully munched oats
Got flattened by a German warplane squadron
In cahoots with Franco’s brutal alternative
To rebels beholden to a fiendish Soviet regime;
No
–
The
horse is screaming because it realizes
It’s in a painting by Picasso. Horses don’t like
Modern art. They don’t want to be in it.
They disapprove of its public display.
It startles them. It causes them to rear
Up on their hind legs. They are conservative
Creatures and who’s to say they’re backward?
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