Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war painting

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Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war painting Sept 25, 2023 13:00:57 GMT politicidal1 and theravenking like this

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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 25, 2023 13:00:57 GMT

Inside the former Wismut mining company in Germany are thousands of artworks, painted while the company secretly mined uranium for Soviet atomic bombs.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/21/underground-art-germanys-buried-trove-of-cold-war-paintings-in-pictures

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Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war painting Sept 28, 2023 10:46:19 GMT politicidal1 and scream like this

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Post by Stammerhead on Sept 28, 2023 10:46:19 GMT

This is wonderfully weird and some impressive paintings. Were the miners encouraged to produced art during their rest periods or was it just because they couldn’t they get a photographer down there?

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Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war painting Feb 29, 2024 19:58:31 GMT

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Post by scream on Feb 29, 2024 19:58:31 GMT

Sept 28, 2023 10:46:19 GMT Stammerhead said:

This is wonderfully weird and some impressive paintings. Were the miners encouraged to produced art during their rest periods or was it just because they couldn’t they get a photographer down there?

I was most impressed by the paintings that used linear perspective - one has to develop an 'eye' for that.