A well-known pianist and other artists had fled there from Warsaw at the outbreak of war in the hope of finding safety.
Anne's idea is to swim against the current by going to the sort of place most artists would flee from.
Many artists fled Brazil simply because they were unable to deal with the current political situation.
The masses come next, causing artists and the rich to flee, and the process starts again at a farther remove from the city.
And yet in a Surrealist juxtaposition of dream with nightmare, there is the Europe the artists fled.
The artists set to work tidying up and spoke about finding new managers since the old ones, all Baath Party members, had fled.
Many important artists fled to North America, and relative safety in the United States.
The billboard was left unfinished and the artists fled.
European artists fled to America during the war and seemed to bring art history with them.