Word: bernie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto exhorting Latin America's painters to back the attack. Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...wild hunt for "Communists," the Government of President Pedro Ramirez has purged the press, literature, labor, social clubs, officialdom. Last week it reached out to clean up art. Police sought out Antonio Berni, recipient of this year's National Prize for Painting, the nation's highest honor to its artists, forbade him to accept the prize because he was a "Communist...
...Berni was not the only one to suffer...