My point is that the gondolier is very clearly not the central aspect of the work, and is in no way being celebrated in that picture. The fact that the person is obscured behind a sign clearly shows that they lack any importance in the scene.
yes i agree the gondolier is not the central aspect of the work, but that is not the same as the labour being entirely invisible: just that they are a part of a piece of landscape art of a solar-punk city
You’re right it’s not the same as being entirely invisible, it’s actually worse because labourers are just depicted as generic cogs when they are present.
the same is true of many soviet sci-fi art, not every piece of art is close up to human scale, the labourers here are just as detailed as the solar-punk labourers
the bulk of communist art also celebrates the worker, soviet sci-fi and solar-punk are both offshoots of communist art made to imagine a future to live in, not the people that live in it
do you think labourers are entirely invisible in soviet sci-fi art?
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?
My point is that the gondolier is very clearly not the central aspect of the work, and is in no way being celebrated in that picture. The fact that the person is obscured behind a sign clearly shows that they lack any importance in the scene.
yes i agree the gondolier is not the central aspect of the work, but that is not the same as the labour being entirely invisible: just that they are a part of a piece of landscape art of a solar-punk city
You’re right it’s not the same as being entirely invisible, it’s actually worse because labourers are just depicted as generic cogs when they are present.
the same is true of many soviet sci-fi art, not every piece of art is close up to human scale, the labourers here are just as detailed as the solar-punk labourers
see here https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8502357/6685007
the bulk of communist art also celebrates the worker, soviet sci-fi and solar-punk are both offshoots of communist art made to imagine a future to live in, not the people that live in it
do you think labourers are entirely invisible in soviet sci-fi art?
No, because they’re prominently features in much of it, e.g: