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The story behind a masterpiece
杰作背后的故事
It's the heart of winter, 1941. Pablo Picasso was living and working on the top floor of an old house on the Left Bank of Paris.
1941年正值隆冬時節。巴勃羅·畢加索當時在巴黎左岸一座老房子的頂層生活和工作。
Most of Europe was under the conltrol of the Third Reich at the time.
當時歐洲大部分地區處于第三帝國的控制之下。
Every so often, Picasso got visits from the Gestapo.
偶爾，蓋世太保會來拜訪畢加索。
One day, there was a visit that passed into Picasso's legend.
一天，有一次拜訪成為了畢加索的傳奇故事。
The unwelcome visitor snooped around a bit and noticed there were postcards of Picasso's most famous work lying around,
這位不受歡迎的造訪者四處窺探了一下會兒，發現周圍凌亂地擺放著印有畢加索名畫的明信片，
which showed what happened on a small Basque town in when German bombs fell the Spanish Civil War.
明信片上畫的是西班牙內戰時德國轟炸巴斯克一個小鎮的情景。
"Did you do this?" he said. "Oh, no," said Picasso.
“這是你畫的嗎？”他說。“哦，不是的。”畢加索說。
"You did. Go on, take one as a souvenir."
“是你畫的。拿一個吧，作為紀念。”
Great response, good story, but what can art really do in the face of war?
回應很好，故事很美，但在戰爭面前，藝術究竟能做什么呢？
Shouldn't art just stick to what it does best— the delivery of pleasure, and forget about being a paintbrush warrior?
難道藝術不應該堅持發揮其所長——傳遞快樂，而不是要成為一名畫筆戰士嗎？
Or is it, when the bombs are dropping, that we find out what art is really for?
抑或是，只有當炸彈從天而降時，我們才能搞清楚藝術的真正目的是什么。
On April 26, 1937, a group of German aircraft, in support of the Spanish fascists,
1937年4月26日，出于支持西班牙法西斯分子的目的，
ruined the town of Guernica with 40 tons of bombs, killing more than 1,600 people.
德國的一批飛機用40噸炸彈將西班牙格爾尼卡鎮夷為平地，造成1600多人死亡。
It was the first time that Europe had suffered such a ruthless, massive bombing.
這是歐洲第一次遭受這樣無情的大規模轟炸。
Picasso's response was to create the most important painting of his life—Guernica.
畢加索的回應創作了他一生中最重要的畫作——《格爾尼卡》。
