Sandip Parmar. Propaganda

Sandip Parmar

PROPAGANDA

Based on the painting of Boris Taslitsk “Report” [1]

See how on the front plan

The crowd locked in the dock post-de-book

Gives a rebuff. Resurrecting from the dead

Rushes into the mouth of the wolfhound: to hell with the state

Shout workers throwing bricks

Like the loaf of bread hot from eloquence of the dead.

The woman falls back when the dog rushes into her face.

Taslavski knows: only dogs can follow such orders

Their authorities. He writes them in horror.

Well versed in the iconography of the rebellion,

He foresaw that the frigate was hung with military trophies

Imperceptibly dissolve at the edge of the gray sea

Slowly disappears somewhere-

Like a memory. Like daily news about an uprising

Which spreads menacingly in the mind

But it does not move. That's why

Taslitsky, former prisoner of Buchenwald, depicts a man (himself?)

In the foreground with a fist raised

(Like a tricolor

Stuck in animal mouth)

In fear of an imminent blow

There will be a policeman (a policeman is Hitler

His mother died in Auschwitz)

His body wriggles.

Only the artist is able to portray this scene so clearly

That if the rebellion enters the heart, it will never leave it.

Translation by Eric Steinblatt

The rims: the painting by Taslitsky “Refusion” (1951) was a response to the tough for the imposal of the strike of the port workers in 1949 in Marseille. In protest, they refused to serve the court, sending colonial conflicts in Indochina to the zone. This controversial anti -imperialist picture was removed from the exhibition by the authorities during the visit of the President of France Vincent Oriol.

[1] Taslitsky, Boris (b. 1911) - French painter and graphic, member of the French Communist Party. In the 30s. He studied in Paris at the school of elegant arts at J. Lipshitsa, as well as with J. Lurs. In 1941-44 In the German-fascist captivity, prisoner of Buchenwald.