Painting: Gased = Shame of Humanity (Teddy's Niece, 7)

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Gased = Shame of Humanity (Teddy's Niece, 7)

Teddy Kupfer, my mother's mother, had ten siblings; she lost three of them in the concentration camps. My whole family got decimated - for no other reason than being Jewish. The certification of incarceration of Otto Kupfer looks like this:

Reason for incarceration: Jewish. He got amputated and murdered at Theresienstadt.

The painting portrays one of my grandmother's siblings, or a niece of hers, I'm not sure - and I don't even want to know her name. Born in 1938, she died in Auschwitz. But I want her to have the potential to be any Jew - because any Jew is at risk - or, better, I want her to feel like she can be any human being, because any human, under the wrong circumstances, can be at risk. Although being Jewish or Armenian or Tutsi can sadly help. 

But isn't it true that even majorities can become minorities in some places? Christians or Muslims - the two leading religions on Earth -  are minorities in specific locales. No one is really safe. 

 

Persecution, discrimination, violence, war, can happen to anyone. Let injustice strike a minority - and you never know who's going to be next. 



Medium

Oil on Canvas, 48''x48''

Signaletics

Gased = Shame of Humanity (Teddy's Niece, 7) is a 2003-2004 painting by Frederic Marsanne, the leading artist in the house where he lives... Frederic has exhibited at MKL GALLERY in Somerville, MA, Ambassador Galleries in Soho, NY, and was chosen to exhibit in a juried show at the New Rochelle Art Association Annual in New Rochelle, NY.

Style, Themes, Techniques

The horror of discrimination and persecution against any minorities, be they the Jews or the Armenians or the Tutsis or the Blacks or the Palestinians or the Whites or the Chinese or the Russians or the Transgenders or the Communists or the Capitalists or the Dentists - remember Seinfeld's episode? - it does not matter who is at risk: everybody is. Let's fight injustice - because all of us must, before/lest we, in turn, become the victims.

The painting shows little detail and gives no clue. Because, just before the worst happens and later when it does, only our own demise, and the violence that accompanies it, matter - and, as often is the case, we hardly see the disaster coming. We may believe we're safe, all of us, until we're not. The colors are red for blood and brown or black to capture some of the darkness and the desolation, not to mention the devastation.

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