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Helena Krajewska (1910 -

Brygada Młodzieżowa na szybkościowcu (Youth Brigade on an Accelerated Construction Site),
painting,1950.

This socrealistic painting has symbolic meaning. The rebuilding of Warsaw, Poland's capital, was a unique event, not simply as a construction feat, but also as an idealistic, political, patriotic, organizational and psychological effort. It was event participated in massively and accepted by the majority of the population with authentic enthusiasm. Evident one hand is the photographic realism, yet on the other hand it is totally unlike a photograph since it is monumental in each form and aims at a severe stylization.