· Excerpts from an article published in Izvestia October 23rd 1958, n° 254 (12870) « Tiberio's truth » by A. Pistounova in the column " The guests of the Festival " Tiberio has travelled a lot - in América, in Europe, in Africa. In Africa especially, whose face was cut by colonizers and whose borders remind one of the furrows of tears gouged out in the cheeks of an old Negro. He brought back from there the motives for his best paintings. « Hanged in Kenya » « Motherhood » : this mother who rocks her only treasure, her child, we feel so much unspeakable sadness and love. Wilson Tiberio believes profoundly in the emancipation from colonialism and in a better future for his fellow countrymen. He is a big sun-tanned man who wears a beret, smokes a pipe and has a serene look. In his big attentive eyes, there is a lot of fiery sparkle, the same fire that his father, blacksmith from the South of Brazil, saw all his life. I met Tiberio in the train of the Festival between Tchop and Moscow. He sat near the window, apparently very concentrated, and stared with an endless gaze at our land. At the station of Jmerinka, a girl-guide offered him a tie, which he did not take off during all the journey. « My dream is coming true, Tiberio said to me, - I have come to this green and happy country. » He has brought with him to Moscow his works of art. They will be exhibited at the painting show of the Festival. There is among them a remarkable picture : " the Mourners ". There is in the mother as much love and tenderness as in the heroin of "Motherhood". Her child is dead. Women dressed in black are weeping. This painting is surprising: expressing all the pain, the pain there which was not exorcised with tears, the pain of the black people. The burden of the black clothes weighs heavily on the shoulders of the women. I saw Tiberio drawing in the train which brought us to Moscow. It was a sketch of a female face, that of a woman belonging to the delegation of the Festival, a Hungarian, very likely. The eyes laughed, her hair flew in the wind. 
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