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JPablo Picasso, wrinkled originator of the red “dove of peace” and cubist art, has been kicked on one of his three dimensions.The aging Spanish painter has been rebuked sternly by the French Communist party high command lor failing to capture “the spirit of theThe French reds were said to have acted on orders 'of the Russian cultural department’’ which was angered at the publication of the drawing in the French Communist Weekly, Res Lettres Fbancaises.Communist Poet Louis Aragon, editor of the weekly and former editor of the collapsed Communist Daily newspaper Ce Soir, also has been spanked.“Aragon telepnoned me,” said Picasso, “and asked me to do something after Stalin died. I am not a writer, so I made a sketch.“I drew what I felt as I have never seen Stalin.”The somewhat bewildered Picasso, j.oining the ranks for the first time of the artists and writers booted by the red command, has been living in comfort on. the sunlit shores of theFrench Riviera, far from the cold“realism of Moscow.“Perhaps they thought it. was not a good enough likeness,” said Picasso, “or was not one of my best drawings.”The painter then added petulant-ly:“You do not bawl out people who send you condolences. And it is usual to thank people who send wreaths, even if they are not beautiful and the flowers are faded.” Picasso, the darling of the reds,once said:“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.” Those who do not know the difference between left bank cubism,
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1953
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