for two the official description of the art calls them farmers, the baskets are meant to be backpack sized at least for the person in the back and they are all wearing uniforms and walking towards the fruit tree on the left. and in three it is hard to see because of the compression but there is a gondolier standing on the boat on the far left side, their head is cut off by the top of the boat
The reason I mentioned walking away is that it suggests the baskets aren’t an intermediary before placing them in larger receptacles on standby among or beside the trees, but rather that this is the total amount being transported away (or individuals make multiple trips, but it’s all still going to their own households or something). I admit that I’m not an expert on agriculture, but it really seems like people just getting food for themselves, so if they are farmers, the optimistic interpretation is communal yeomanry.
Thank you for pointing out the gondolier. All the people in that area really blend in with the background because of the color palette. You are right on that one.
The fact that the gondolier is hidden behind a sign clearly illustrates their lack of importance to the scene. They’re nothing more than a faceless cog. Compare that to how labourers are depicted in socialist realism as prominent and proud figures central to the art:
for two the official description of the art calls them farmers, the baskets are meant to be backpack sized at least for the person in the back and they are all wearing uniforms and walking towards the fruit tree on the left. and in three it is hard to see because of the compression but there is a gondolier standing on the boat on the far left side, their head is cut off by the top of the boat
The reason I mentioned walking away is that it suggests the baskets aren’t an intermediary before placing them in larger receptacles on standby among or beside the trees, but rather that this is the total amount being transported away (or individuals make multiple trips, but it’s all still going to their own households or something). I admit that I’m not an expert on agriculture, but it really seems like people just getting food for themselves, so if they are farmers, the optimistic interpretation is communal yeomanry.
Thank you for pointing out the gondolier. All the people in that area really blend in with the background because of the color palette. You are right on that one.
you are welcome, yes it seems to be a flawed depiction of farming
The fact that the gondolier is hidden behind a sign clearly illustrates their lack of importance to the scene. They’re nothing more than a faceless cog. Compare that to how labourers are depicted in socialist realism as prominent and proud figures central to the art:
if we zoom in really hard there’s a person behind the sing whom we can’t see entirely doing productive work, really celebrating labour there lmfao
i was responding to you saying “labour is entirely invisible in pretty much all the solar-punk aesthetic”
And you chose the pic that literally hides the labourer to drive this point home 🤣
it is one of the four images i chose, and the labourer is visible in the picture, not “entirely invisible” as you said
in fact, you could even say the labourer is obscured and tastefully hidden away as not to ruin the scenery
i was able to see the gondolier
you’re doing a lot of mental gymnastics there in order to avoid acknowledging my point I see
is your point is that the gondolier shouldn’t have had a sign between them and the viewer?