It'd have to look just grand in your living room... :-)
How did you know? It would look nice above my fireplace
between the copies of Monet and Geuneutte. It would replace
Tom Roberts who is badly faded.
But it's a bit too small, 1m x 1.70m, is it imposing enough?
What are those people actually doing?
What do they have in their backpacks/knapsacks/hampers?
Coals?
Look at the guy with a flaming torch, the one who's burning
a left tit of the girl jumping high with pain. And he is having his
wallet stolen by one of the shadowy characters with a hamper.
Goodwill March, hmmm. Are they taking christmas gifts
to South Korea or returning from a successfull trick-and-treat
evening?
Gosh, it's more puzzling than a mystery of the Permian extinction.
pjk
I have a soft spot for socialist realism. It is so... er... surreal..
Jiri Pecka
And imagine how magnificent it'd look on that long white wall in your
living room - right next to the big plasma! ;-)
I reckon there's room there for several pieces; like, a testament to the
lasting achievements of the Korean proletariat...
That'd take care of these moments of melancholy you are prone to from
time to time - jen se chlapce podivas, a hned se dusicka potesi! :-)
S
Za par babek vam lecjaky "hladovejici umelec" premaluje prapor namodro.
Nebo na prouzkovato, s hrsti hvezdicek.
Hej presto! "Uspesny vyvoz demokracie do Afghanistanu"!
Jako vysite pro klubovnu "Modreho Koutku Vzajemne Si Pritakavajicich..."
:-))
JB
Pane Kriha, nedelate vy nahodou jako takovou tu bokovku k prilepseni si
nejaky ten dolar k duchodu umeleckeho kritika?
Jestli ne, tak byste to mel zkusit. Podle meho mate k tomu primo
neskutecny talent!
Teda aspon co se tyce urciteho druhu umeni... :-)
S
What's more, they are obviously well fed. No sign of
nutritional deprivation in any of their faces. These kids
look like they eat oranges and dates all year round.
What do you make of that?
Hmm.... I guess life must be really good in North Korea?
Jiri Pecka
I've just tried to visualize you making loud jokes like this one at
a socialist art exhibition at Manes in Prague in the fifties.
Those two gentlemen in leather coats and black hats who
just came in seem to want to speak to you.
pjk
No to... hernajs... takze to se.... ale jak to.... tak se mi zda...
Ale hrome, je "neskutecny talent" k necemu dobry?
Jak se to da zpenezit?
pjk
Those black thingies in their hampers look like prunes.
They all keep running and the ones in the back keep
jumping over some things while the expressions on
their faces are perhaps not smiles but farting grimaces.
And there in the distance behind the earthmoving machinery
is digging mass graves for the ones who did not make it.
pjk
The whole slide show! It's interesting how well they learned from
Russians. It's like ruskies with slanted eyes. And to think this
stuff still exists somewhere in the world. The picture titled "Road
Construction" is a lovely piece of art as well. y