Looking at my pictures from my trip to Washington last Fall, I came across this image of the breadline by George Segal. What a magnificent rendition of the grinding poverty of the nineteen thirties. Of course what makes this artwork so interesting is the relevance to our own disturbing times.
That's pretty cool
ReplyDeleteMy uncle came from the Ukraine for about a month. We sponsored him to come over. My father would drive him around Toronto to show him how we lived and what the city was like. They drove past the Sally Ann at Spadina & College streets, and my uncle said that is what was shown on TV news all the time back home. That Canadians and Americans lined-up for food. My father explained that that was not true it was only the less fortunate and they needed help. My uncle also said that all the cars in Toronto moved. Not back home. They were just shells of cars parked on the boulevards to impress the tourists. When he went back to the Ukraine he said he could not tell anyone about the Canadian lifestyles not even his own family for fear of being sent off to a Gulag or worse.
ReplyDeleteThis is what this photo of the statues reminds me of, the 1970's.