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What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural — Colin Marshall

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What emotion did you feel the first time you saw Picasso's Guernica? I was blown away. I was about 22 or 23 at the time, a grad student at Columbia on my first visit to the Museum of Modern Art. I revised that picture often.I had seen reproductions on a much smaller scale and knew the background but this didn't prepare for the real thing. The size makes the experience exceptionally powerful.And this was before Vietnam radicalized me.War is truly hell.Open CultureWhat Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War MuralColin Marshall

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What emotion did you feel the first time you saw Picasso's Guernica?
I was blown away. I was about 22 or 23 at the time, a grad student at Columbia on my first visit to the Museum of Modern Art. I revised that picture often.

I had seen reproductions on a much smaller scale and knew the background but this didn't prepare for the real thing. The size makes the experience exceptionally powerful.

And this was before Vietnam radicalized me.

War is truly hell.

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What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural
Colin Marshall

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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