[lbo-talk] Picasso is not a communist [foia]

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 10 07:56:20 PDT 2004


http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aragon.htm
> ...'"Poor Aragon," Picasso chuckled as soon as Aragon had left
his studio. "He doesn't know anything about pigeons. And as for the gentle dove, what a myth that is! There's no crueller animal... How's that for a symbol of Peace?"' (from Picasso: Creator & Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, 1988)

When Stalin died in 1953, Aragon published a portrait of him in Les Lettres françaises under the headline 'What We Owe to Stalin". It was drawn by Picasso and arose furor. Aragon thanked the party leaders for their rebuke and published excerpts from the outraged letters sent from the different Communist cells. After the uproar had died down Picasso asked:

"How can Aragon, a poet, endorse the view that it is the public which should judge reality?"

In 1968 Aragon publicly condemned the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia - he also attacked Stalinism. <SNIP>

-- Michael Pugliese



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