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Enduring power of Guernica

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Pablo Picasso painted Guernica as a protest against the 1937 bombing of the Spanish town of the same name by Luftwaffe bombers during the Spanish civil war and for many art-lovers it has come to symbolise the barbarity of war. A tapestry version of the painting, which usually hangs outside the UN's security council chamber, is coming to London's Whitechapel gallery. Art critics Andrew Graham-Dixon and Sister Wendy Beckett discuss the impact of the painting.

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