The Exiles

The Exiles is a name given to an artistic and literary age and a group of artists in the late 1940s and 1950s. The name refers mostly to exiled writers, painters and other artists who left Europe follwing World War II and the start of the Cold War.

History
Brunanter art and literature had begun a transformation into a modern golden age in the end of the 19th and early 20th century. The Second World War and its aftermath led to a transformation in thought among Brunanter artists. Furthermore, there was an exodus of European artists, many from Eastern and Central Europe who left for the United States, but some who came to Brunant.

Writers like Jewish-German Herman Waldman, the Egyptian poet Rafik Boumaza, Spanish painter and the filmmaker Ennio Pazzini all belonged to this age, having come to Brunant between 1945 and 1951.

At the same time, there were Brunanter artists who began adopting new ideas and concepts and were soon working with these exiled artists. Painters like Gabriel Blanchard and MC Weissmann, writers such as Henry Winston Cavell.

These artists formed a sort of club or organization and were known for congregating in several locations across Brunant, though mostly in Koningstad, such as the Pink Flamingo Club, but especially at a now-former drinking establishment at nr. 10 Varne, in the Arabian Quarter.

Artistic views
The Exiles became known for their adoption of some realim in their work, but epecially for delving into modernist and "outside-the-box" works. These artists were the first to reject the post-war realism and embrace a moving-on art. They were the first in introducing the start of visual pop art, in bringing an evolution to literature from the real and tangible to more conceptual words and the rise of Brunanter film, with Pazzini and later Hosen and Vianna building on that.

This artistic scene and sharing of concepts and ideas brought about profound change on Brunanter art as it entered the modern age. By the late 1950s newer artists began building on the cnage brought on by these "exiles" and soon they faded from the forefront of the art scene.