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...butter Five-Year Plan (TIME, Oct. 14), Juan Peron last week picked a man tabbed by the U.S. Blue Book as a wartime A is agent. His choice: Barcelona-born José Figuerola, who got his start by blueprinting Government-bossed trade unions for Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera in the '20s. In Argentina, where he took out citizenship papers in 1930, chubby Jose Figuerola kept up the good work as Juan Perón's Man Friday and expert on labor matters. Argentines now saw -his fine Iberian hand in almost every paragraph of the President...
...Remember, my generals," he concluded "that José Antonio [son of Dictator Primo Rivera] was right when he said 'one of the most serious things in the world today is being a Spaniard...
Wizened Old Master Orozco contributed a twisted mass of bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
...became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private collectors. Green-eyed, eagle-beaked Siqueiros stayed violent. He had spent most of his life in jail or exile, fought wars and painted walls from Guadalajara, Spain to Chili...