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MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
Like Charlie Chaplin, the cartoonist Mario Armengol He caricaturized Adolf Hitler when the Nazi leader held absolute power in Germany and it was credible that he could subdue Europe. The Catalan artist drew the cartoons we see at the MUVIM on behalf of the British Ministry of Information (MOI) of the government of Winston Churchill between 1941 i 1945. With them he became the only Spanish citizen who worked massively in the propaganda of the Allies during World War II to combat the undeniable power of attraction of the swastika. Using ink as a weapon, Armengol laughs from the tyrant with the intention of getting rid of his myth and draws the Germans losing battles in the middle of ridicule. But he has for all: For the Japanese, For French collaborators led by Decrepit Mariscal Pétain and President Laval, i per a Mussolini, drawn as a child despised by the Germans playing the war in his world of Which one. I for Franco, of course, A puppet in Hitler's hands that draws his mentor and runs behind the British when he sees the third Reich shaking. The MUVIM discovers in Paint against Hitler to an essential author in the history of war caricature to include it with honors in Spanish and European graphic history. S.M.
