TOBY JOYCE,
Sir, - Vincent Browne's use of Picasso's painting Guernica, inspired by the bombing of the Basque town by the Germans, is somewhat out of context (Opinion, January 9th).
Picasso painted the picture as an overt piece of propaganda and a reproach to the Western powers, particularly France, which was that time appeasing fascism. For that reason, the painting had its first public display in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris (1937). Picasso intended it as a call to take up arms to oppose fascism.
Since Mr Browne has consistently argued for appeasement of the Islamo-fascists, his use of this particular work of art is quite grotesque. - Yours, etc.,
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TOBY JOYCE,
Navan,
Co Meath.