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In October 1944 Picasso joined the Communist Party, which had an outstanding record in the wartime French Resistance and would remain a force in French politics for several decades. Once more, a new departure in Picasso's life coincided with the arrival of a new woman, in this instance the painter Francoise Gilot, herself a commited Communist.
Over the next few years Picasso supported the peace movement (in Western eyes little more than a Communist 'front') by attending congresses and also by providing the movement with this, its celebrated dove symbol.
In the 1950s he painted a number of ambituous political canvases such as Massacre in Korea. Ironically, Picasso's works were regularly denounced as decadent by the Soviet media, since they failed to conform to the approved 'Socialist Realist' style promoted throughout the Communist world. After the mid-1950s politics virtually disappeared from Picasso's art, although he remained a party member until his death in 1973.
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Source: Life and Works of Picasso
Further Reading: Biography I
Further Reading: Life of Picasso
Further Reading: Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
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