The People’s Museum consisted of two traveling collections of paintings, each with 14 copies – made by Juan Bonafé, Ramón Gaya, and Eduardo Vicente – of famous paintings of the Spanish school of art. The paintings were transported in strong wooden boxes in a van and were accompanied by a couple of missionaries who explained the paintings to the peasants. Gaya himself, Antonio Sánchez Barbudo, and Luis Cernuda were among the guides. The show included music played in a gramophone, slides, and movies. The museum stayed about a week in each village, and visitors were presented with phototype or rotogravure reproductions of the paintings; framed photographs of them were left in schools and workers’ centers. |