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"IN THE SUMMER of 1937, the twenty-nine-year-old art critic of the London Spectator went over to Paris to see Picasso’s newly unveiled “Guernica.” Turbulent acclaim surrounded this great cry of outraged humanity. The critic’s finding, which was printed on August 6th, was severely dismissive. The painting was “a private brain-storm which gives no evidence that Picasso has realised the political significance of Guernica.” In his column for October 8th, the critic, Anthony Blunt, reviewed Picasso’s ferocious series of etchings on the “Dream and Life of Franco.” Again he was negative. These works “cannot reach more than the limited coterie of aesthetes.” Picasso was blind to the sovereign consideration that the Spanish Civil War was “only a tragic part of a great forward movement” toward the defeat of Fascism and the ultimate liberation of the common man. The future belongs to an artist like William Coldstream, declared The Spectator’s critic on March 25, 1938. “Picasso belongs to the past.”"

George Steiner