(22 Apr 2007) SHOTLIST :
Madrid
1. Various of exterior of Reina Sofia Modern Art Museum
2. Various of painting "Guernica" by artist Pablo Picasso
3. Set up of Jorge Garcia, Head of Conservation at Reina Sofia Modern Art Museum
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Garcia, Head of Conservation at Reina Sofia Modern Art Museum :
"It is a very large work that has suffered significantly from the various moves that it has be subjected to. In the study that we carried out into its situation we determined that due to its characteristics, components and format it is a work of extreme fragility and as such is a work that should not be moved."
5. Garcia examining "Guernica"
6. Various of crack in painting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Garcia, Head of Conservation at Reina Sofia Modern Art Museum :
"Picasso wish was that this work should not be hanged in temporary exhibitions and since 1957 this has been respected. This work has therefore since 1957 never been moved for temporary exhibits."
Guernica
8. Wide of Guernica town
9. Guernica bridge
10. Men walking in street
11. Wide of Guernica mosaic
12. Set up of historian Jose Angel Etxaniz
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Angel Etxaniz, Historian :
"We, the people of Guernica, have always protested in favor that the "Guernica" painting is for Guernica. These new things of the Guernica going to the Guggenheim I'm not a fan. I've always maintained that the "Guernica" is for Guernica, if not, then we don't want it."
Bilbao
14. Various exteriors of the Guggenheim Museum of Art
15. Various of people looking at art
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop :
"I think that is a reasonable to bring it near to the place where the idea came from for the painting. I think that it should come at least for awhile, a season or a couple of months."
17. Exterior Guggenheim Museum
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop :
"I think that the most important thing is to look after the work of art itself. I'm no specialist but if the Ministry of Culture says that it shouldn't be moved then it shouldn't be moved."
19. People outside Guggenheim Museum
LEAD IN :
This year is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in Spain.
On 26 April, 1937 Guernica was targeted for aerial bombing during the Spanish Civil War.
In response to the atrocity artist Pablo Picasso painted his famous work by the same name, "Guernica".
But controversy now surrounds where this work should be kept.
STORYLINE :
The National Museum of Art Reina Sofia in the Spanish capital Madrid contains many of the world's most influential paintings and art works of modern times.
One painting, however, is attracting a good deal of attention at the moment.
"Guernica", painted by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, is an iconic anti-war image illustrating the brutality and terror of violence.
On 26 April 1937 German and Italian fighter planes backing the fascist forces of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War levelled this historic Basque town.
News reports spoke of the village in flames and thousands dead. The attack on Guernica was to become the first widely reported attack on innocent civilians in modern warfare.
Myths and misinformation have shrouded the bombing from the outset, starting with the death toll, which historians have been gradually revising downward for decades.
Pablo Picasso's assimilation of the horrific events in Guernica were projected into an immense black and white oil painting. The tortured figures of people and animals reflected a scene of suffering and despair.
The painting itself has not escaped its own controversy.
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