Not my fav among all Spanish painters but still very good,
NYTimes has an article on The Secret of the Black Paintings

The image has been way overquoted, overlinked and overshown but it seems to me that we Spaniards have
a somewhat Cassandra complex in these war-things, we seem to be primers in suffering among manking
first but nobody is paying attention nor listening. And of course nobody learns from it. So it goes...
"No pasarán"... But sadly enough they did pass through...