When Darkness Returns, Art Persists

A mural of Picasso’s Guernica in the Basque town of Gernica itself. (photo by Almudena Sanz Tabernero on Pixabay)

In the summer of 2023, I stood alone in a room at Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum, face to face with Picasso's Guernica. The massive canvas filled my vision - the screaming horse, the fallen warrior, the mother with her dead child, all in stark b…