The exhibition establishes the artists’ pro-worker and anti-capitalist stance through their images of unemployed workers, rich industrialists, and urban poverty while also addressing the anti-facism emotions that ran high during a time of global political unrest during the time period, 1929-1940, to what is known as the Red Decade.
“The exhibition portrayed the struggle between the industrial owners and the mistreated and underrepresented industrial workers. With reference to an “Industrial Frankenstein,” many of the artists believed that, the industrial bosses are unknowingly building up a massive group of workers that will inevitably lead to their own demise. The Gallery also covered other very controversial topics in that time period as sentiments ran high over antifascism. In one of the portrayed paintings, you can see the interwoven conflicts of that time period as an Englishman nervously wipes sweat from his brow, Moussolini gives … Facist salute, Hitler…Facist salute and holding a human head, a worried French Lady liberty, a Japanese soldier torturing a Chinese, and finally, Uncle Sam portrayed with a look of remote indignation, trying to keep his distance from the rest of the figures. The only audience is noted as “death” in a gas mask, watching over the commotion happening on stage.” – Jingyih Lee
