Fiction that Matters

teenagesmog:

Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) and After 

The first painting is Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) Expressionistic Massacre in Korea (1951).  It depicts the 1950 Sinchon Massacre, an act of mass killing carried out by South Korean and/or American forces in the town of Sinchon located in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. Though the events are still much debated, the victims appear to have been communist sympathizers and North Korean civilians, including a large number of children.

In the 40’s Picasso joined the French Communist Party and  remained a loyal member of the Communist Party until his death.

The second is South Korean Oh Yun’s Hope for Unification, 1985.  I have no additional information.  In the beginning there were two clans such as their is now.

The Third painting, Catch and Kill a North Korean Soldier is just a painting made by some South Korean elementary student likely in the 1980s.

The fourth painting is a North Korean propaganda poster criticizing American Imperialism sometime near the end or after the war.

The last picture is History of Pro-Democracy Movements (1985), displayed in Seoul National University.