[Sharp. Witty. Thoughtful. Sign up for the Style Memo newsletter.] Trotsky’s vision for art and culture was more liberal than Stalin’s: He believed good art was inherently revolutionary and ...

In his June 1938 article, “Art and Politics in Our Epoch,” Leon Trotsky discussed the work of Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera, who was at that time in political sympathy with the ...

Her response was among the notable reactions from the art world. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), was the co-leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialist opponent of Joseph Stalin, founder of the ...

Leon Trotsky, arriving in Mexico ... Kahlo’s Surrealist style was “alien to the principles of Soviet Realist art,” and therefore “the possibility of displaying such artworks in the ...

The Despres mentioned that they were interested in buying some Mexican art, and Trotsky’s secretary suggested that they have Rivera do a portrait of Marian, because he would give the fee to Trotsky.

“Breaking Eggs with Leon Trotsky,” on which he converses jovially with Republican legislators and think-tank neocons — displaying his superior knowledge of French brandy and art history ...

A hunted figure lost in exile, under round-the-clock security and so jumpy that he once pulled a gun on his doctor – these are the remarkable years of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary and ...

This seemed a black art, and its Mephistophelian character was emphasized by that wavy black hair and a short, pointed beard. It was, however, a trait of mind and social attitude, not a physical trait ...