Pablo Picasso Trotskyist and anti-Stalinist André Breton was more blunt; refusing to shake hands with Picasso, he told him: "I don't approve of your joining the Communist Party nor with the stand you have taken concerning the purges of the intellectuals after the Liberation". Picasso was against the intervention of the United Nations and the United States in the Korean War and he depicted it in "Massacre in Korea". The art critic Kirsten Hoving Keen says that it is "inspired by reports of American atrocities" and considers it one of Picasso's communist works. In 1962, he received the Lenin Peace Prize. Biographer
Political party strength in Michigan Political party strength in Michigan The tables below indicate the political party affiliation of elected officials in the U.S. State of Michigan from statehood through March 2018. Officials listed include: Governors, Lieutenant Governors, Secretaries of State, Attorneys General and State Treasurers. The tables also indicate the historical party composition in the State Senate, State House of Representatives, the names and party affiliations of Michigan's U.S. Senators, and the party composition of Michigan's delegations to the U.S House of Representatives. For years in which a presidential election was held, the tables show which party's nominees received the State's electoral votes. The