Video - 1943's Art Wars: Scandalous Portrait vs. Bread Stalin! 🖌️🍞

Did you know that in 1943, amidst the chaos of World War II, an Australian painter named William Dobell won the Archibald Prize for a portrait that caused a nationwide scandal? Dobell's painting of fellow artist Joshua Smith was so distorted that critics claimed it was a caricature, not a portrait. The controversy even led to a court case to strip him of the prize! Meanwhile, in the same year, Soviet propaganda was in full swing, and bread sculptures of Stalin were being baked and paraded around. Yes, you heard that right—bread Stalin! Imagine the smell of freshly baked dictatorship. Which do you think was crazier, the distorted portrait or the bread dictator? Let us know in the comments!