BRIGADA PABLO NERUDA (FL. 1970-1980S)

BRIGADA PABLO NERUDA. Chile vive y lucha. ('Chile lives and struggles.'). [No place, but probably Italy, no date, but c. 1975].

Rare poster published by Chilean exiles in Italy.

Offset lithographic poster (445 x 690 mm.), printed in colours. (One tiny chip and nick to right-hand margin, faint stain to lower margin, top right-hand corner with minor dogear.)

The Brigada Pablo Neruda was an artistic movement formed of Chilean refugees living in Italy. After the military coup on 11 September 1973 which ousted Salvador Allende and his socialist government, many Chileans opposed to General Pinochet's dictatorship fled abroad. A group of Chileans in Italy formed an artistic movement named after the Chilean Nobel prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda. They are best known for large-scale murals, with a distinctive palette consisting of 'basic' (yellow, red, blue, black and white), and 'secondary', all outlined in black. This black outline served to correct any mistakes, many of which were made because their works were painted in conjunction with people who were not painters or artists. Indeed, the essence of the Brigada's art form was collective participation, and as such the Brigada had links with the Communist Party of Italy (CPI), the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI), Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI), and the International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples.

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