After Training
Painting
ID:
1637
Number in cycle:
1
Ending number:
204
Date:
May 1972
Medium:
acrylic; canvas;oil
Dimensions:
146 cm x 114 cm
Description:
A group of middle-aged men is taking a shower at their working place. They can be miners or employees of the Sandomierz glassworks. They are quite sleazy. They have these common, a bit overweight and shrunken bodies. Their livers are a mess. And the one in clothing may have hernia that he's ashamed of showing. After Training means after work. In the People's Republic of Poland work was survival training. Most of Poland's production plants was underinvested in technological means with full employment at the same time. This resulted in very low work efficiency. The real production was somewhere else: in the USA, in Germany or Japan etc. Here we had training. One went to work and survived for eight hours. And if something could be lifted it was lifted and these Sportsmen of mine had different barracks and cellars full of this stolen crap: some planks, some metal plates, some nails.
(E.D.)
Owner type:
institution
Tags:
Polish people;sport;water
