Few weeks ago on my way to Helsinki I had a 6 hours stop in Vienna. I was looking what would be intersting for me to see there, as I have been to Vienna and I know most of the places of interest. Then I saw on the tour guide brochure they gave me at the airport that that in one of the most famous galleries in the world called Albertina, there is a very interesting exibition that I would like to visit as a peace messenger of SCI and as a human as well. It was called Picasso: Peace and Freedom and I recommend to everyone who has the time and opportunity to see it. There I learned that: The white dove is an international symbol of peace, thanks in good part to the fame of Pablo Picasso's 1949 lithograph for the International Peace Congress in Paris.
Below are some links that reveal more on this and also touch the peace symbols in their difersity and history:
http://www.wien.info/en/sightseeing/museums-exhibitions/highlights/picasso-albertina
http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/38874/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols
http://www.squidoo.com/The-Peace-Symbol-s-Birthday
http://www.givepeaceavote.org/article.php?id=1202
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/peace.html
Enjoy,
Katerina
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