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Comrades selected Mateusz Birkut...
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to be a delegate to the
Builders' Convention...
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and later to the Convention
of lead workers.
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And so men like Birkut became the
inspiration for artists.
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A marble statue takes form...
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a symbol of the heroism
of our bricklayers.
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An art exhibition at the Zacheta
Gallery in Warsaw.
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It is opened by the one whose
statue is the...
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centerpiece of the showing.
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Mateusz Birkut may claim with
satisfaction that:
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"We have played our part...
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in the revolution in Polish art."
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Indeed.
:24:18
They were its engine...
:24:22
raw material, and substance.
The people were now on canvas.
:24:30
Look at...
:24:31
the degenerate
works of artists...
:24:34
from the capitalistic west.
:24:35
It's no accident they have removed
from the human form...
:24:39
its shape...
:24:40
and substance.