• Tervell [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 个月前

    the famous fascist artform of, uh… landscape painting?

    “EVERY PAINTING MUST FIT A QUOTA OF PEOPLE IN-FRAME” is a take that even actual state censors in communist countries didn’t have, truly we never stop innovating

    Zykunov P.A. - Industrial landscape

    more

    Ivan Tyukha - Soviet landscape 2

    Ivan Tyukha - Ruined temple

    Ivan Tyukha - On the Volga river

    Ivan Tyukha - Autumn

    Igor Rubinsky - Haystacks, 1952

    Igor Rubinsky - Foggy morning, 1971

    Charnetskaya N.K. - Tbilisi, 1953

    this one’s definitely focused on people, but I just found it and thought it was pretty cute - also the father’s fit here is impeccable Ponomarev A.M. - From the city with gifts - 1969

    posting the rest of these on Imgur since I’m tired of waiting on the rate-limit: https://imgur.com/a/zVOjY4E

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      You’re missing the point. There are people in-frame often, just not the people who did the building. It’s just artists and other quirky culture aficionados whose lifestyle is founded on the work of laborers who are rarely considered and certainly don’t receive the same lionization.

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        The tweet very specifically says “the people who live in or work in or …”, it’s not singling out just workers at all! You’re arguing a completely different point.

        Also, how the fuck do we know what the people in-frame are? By what metric did we determine that they’re “culture afficionados” and not workers? They’re not actively swinging hammers in the image?

        And what’s wrong with artists anyway, socialist countries obviously had plenty of those??

        And, even if they were workers, they probably wouldn’t be the ones who built it anyway! Construction is its own separate sector of the economy, most workers in socialist countries aren’t in construction and thus live in homes they didn’t build themselves, like, what are we even talking about here?

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          I don’t know what the “live in” part is about, but you’re being obtuse otherwise. Artists are cool and fine (and are themselves workers at least sometimes), the point is that, at least by the perception of some, solarpunk is overwhelmingly a playground utopia with no attention paid to the people responsible for its creation or maintenance.

          I think the interest in the people who built the buildings themselves is slightly exaggerated, but when these buildings are such an object of focus, it does make sense to give a bit of attention to their construction as well, and there’s always the option to depict more limited renovations of the kind that private citizens do often do with their own homes.