The Beakers: The NW Answer to No Wave
Pablo Picasso worked up “Guernica” in response to the political climate he lived in as well as homage to Goya. It’s a painting that’s still shown in history classrooms across the world to illustrate the complete and total breakdown of civility during the first half of the twentieth century. It’s a cultural marker. And important work of Spanish art and phenomenon the world over.
And it’s a good painting.
So, all of that makes it seem a bit odd that the Beakers, upon the re-issue of its recorded works dating back to the earliest moments of Seattle in the eighties, use Picasso’s “Guernica” for its cover.
