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Essentially set up as a radically left political organisation, the AIA embraced all styles of art both modernist and traditional, but the core committee preferenced realism. Its later aim was to promote the "Unity of Artists for Peace, Democracy and Cultural Development". They held a series of large
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By 1936 the membership had grown to around one thousand artists from the original group of thirty-two. In 1940 the group launched their Everyman Prints scheme where prints were sold cheaply to the masses, and made available in high street shops, and not in galleries.
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group exhibitions on political and social themes. Their first exhibition was hosted in a showroom on Charlotte Street in 1934, entitled
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through exhibitions and other fund-raising activities. The Association was also involved in the settling of artists displaced by the
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had begun to administer the organisation's gallery in Soho. She was the gallery's secretary and notably helped the artists
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Another of the AIA's aims was to promote wider access to art through travelling exhibitions and public mural paintings.
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It continued until 1971, but abandoned its original objectives in 1953 and became an exhibiting society.
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Art for a Purpose. The Artist's International Association 1933-1953
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A.I.A.: Story of the Artists' International Association,1933-53
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The AIA supported the left-wing Republican side in the
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The first meeting took place in Misha Black's room at
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Index

AIA (disambiguation)
London
Pearl Binder
Misha Black
James Fitton
James Boswell
Edward Ardizzone
Peter Laszlo Peri
Edith Simon
Seven Dials
Spanish Civil War
Nazi
Germany
Duncan Grant
Diana Uhlman
Edward Ardizzone
David Gentleman
James Lucas (illustrator)
Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists
"James Holland, 20th Century Artist"



accessed 18 Feb 2020
"Biography | The Edith Simon Gallery"



"Conservative in art, Radical in politics"
"Uhlman, Manfred [Fred] (1901–1985), writer and painter"

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