Pablo Picasso of postcards to raise funds for the Spanish Republican cause. In 1944, Picasso joined the French Communist Party, attended the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Poland, and in 1950 received the Stalin Peace Prize from the Soviet government. Party criticism in 1953 of his portrait of Stalin as insufficiently realistic cooled Picasso's interest in Soviet politics, though he remained a loyal member of the Communist Party until his death. His dealer, D-H. Kahnweiler, a socialist, termed Picasso's communism "sentimental" rather than political, saying "He has never read a line of Karl Marx, nor of Engels of
Political party strength in Arizona indicates the historical party composition in the: For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. The parties are as follows: (D), (I), (N), (R), (U), and . Political party strength in Arizona The U.S. state of Arizona is the home of Senators Jeff Flake and Jon Kyl, and the state is widely regarded as a Republican Party stronghold. Statistics show a close division among Arizona's 3,665,316 active registered voters as of October 2017: Republican 34.61% (1,268,748), Party-Not-Designated/Other 34.13% (1,250,879), Democratic 30.19% (1,106,675), Libertarian 0.87% (31,941), and Green 0.19%