{"id":458,"date":"2016-09-22T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-09-22T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T05:25:39","slug":"weps-1956-cultural-exchange-trip-to-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Wep&#8217;s 1956 Romanian adventure: Wep travels behind Iron Curtain on cultural exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4097\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027-1024x1014.jpg\" alt=\"Orbit Travel Service, Sydney Australia - preferential passenger\" width=\"584\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027-1024x1014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027-303x300.jpg 303w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CM-3_0698-1956-Cultural-Exchange-Trip_0027.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1956, acclaimed Australian artist, William Edwin Pidgeon (WEP) was issued with a visa for travel behind the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d to Romania as part of a cultural exchange program.\u00a0 This series of posts includes extracts from letters he sent back home to his wife, Dorothy and son, Graham, describing his adventures and depicting the places, people and life as he witnessed them. Included with posts will be some of the photos he took and\u00a0art work inspired from his trip. Earlier that year Wep had been diagnosed with glaucoma in both eyes, a secret closely guarded for years to come for the potential impact it could have upon his ability to obtain painting commissions. Within\u00a0his Romanian papers is a handwritten note; &#8220;My eyes are troubling me very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3743\" style=\"width: 844px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3743 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_01102.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0110\" width=\"844\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_01102.jpg 844w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_01102-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_01102-720x1024.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Invitation to Wep from the Romanian Institute for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries to visit Romania; 17 July 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wep&#8217;s travel arrangements came to the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) with a consequence that he was monitored by ASIO for the next three years. Two other Australians were also invited; actor, Peter O&#8217;Shaugnessey and author, Frank Hardy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3744\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0119.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0119\" width=\"1200\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0119.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0119-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0119-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0119-370x300.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wep left Sydney on September 22, 1956 with stopovers in Darwin, Singapore, Rome, Venice, Munich, and\u00a0Vienna. He arrived in\u00a0Budapest, Hungary on October 2nd, travelling to Bucharest in Romania the next day. He spent two weeks in Romania, returning to Vienna on October 18. Five days later a cloud fell over Hungary when widespread revolt erupted against the Soviet backed government leading to its fall from power. On November 4, the Soviets invaded, crushing the revolt, and by November 10, all resistance had ceased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Vienna, Wep traveled to Paris where he planned to stay with his old friend and journalist, Roley Pullen. It was here that he met Roley&#8217;s assistant, another fellow Australian, Margaret Murray, with whom he formed a lifetime friendship. He remained in Paris for for just over two weeks, then a similar amount of time in London, finally arriving back home in Sydney on December 2, 1956.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-459\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0004-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"WEP Passport_0004\" width=\"584\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0004-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0004-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0005-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"WEP Passport_0005\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0005-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0005-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3745 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0122.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0122\" width=\"763\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0122.jpg 763w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0122-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0122-651x1024.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WEP-Passport_0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3746\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0118.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0118\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0118.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0118-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0118-868x1024.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1956, acclaimed Australian artist, William Edwin Pidgeon (WEP) was issued with a visa for travel behind the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d to Romania as part of a cultural exchange program.  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