Word: salvadoran
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Stone, a director of New Orleans' Arts & Crafts Club, invited El Salvador and Guatemala to send their best art for an exhibition in New Orleans' Royal Street Gallery, put up a $50 prize for the best painting from each country. Most of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan art looked about as Latin as a Saturday Evening Post cover. Prizes went to Guatemalan Jaime Arimany (for a tropical mountain scene), and Salvadoran José Media Vides (for a bevy of dark-skinned bathers-see cut}. Critics were politely rhapsodic...
...Salvadoran critics outdid the critics of New Orleans in politeness. Said Critic Salvador Salazar Arrue: "The exposition is of great transcendence to Salvadoran art. . . . The social importance these cultural manifestations exercise on life will be clearly seen...