“Picasso’s smartest decision in “Guernica,” a consummate feat of pictorial intelligence, was to limit its palette to black-and-white. He thereby . . . [implied] that war is no time for indulgence and, by evoking the look of a newspaper, factored in the modern experience of comprehending catastrophe (and of inflicting it) at a distance.”

—Peter Schjeldahl, Spanish Lessons: Picasso in Madrid, The New Yorker, June 19, 2006.