These are interesting, but I find this to be the most interesting part:
In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their "patriotic education." After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost.
Their symbolic meanings were forever lost? I realize it's been a rough few decades for the former Yugoslavia, and I realize kids tend not to pay much attention on field trips even when threatened with the Gulag for misbehavior, but they don't have any of those 1980s young pioneers left who remember anything the tour guides said?
Not likely. However, it does raise an interesting point about modern art (a subject Jon and I have debated once or twice): somebody has to remember what the heck it was supposed to be. Frederic Remington doesn't have this issue.
As Red art goes, I'm more of a fan of socialist realism. I always thought it was weird that the covers of Ayn Rand novels are done in this very style.
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