Animal Farm
Ivan Cangelosi © 2011
120X100 cm
Ink on paper
Technique – Handwriting of the whole novel of George Orwell – Original language
Material – Pens and paper
Category-Politics
About the novel – Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell, published in 1945. It’s about the revolt of an English animal farm against the domination of its owner, who neglected and exploited them. After initial success with a beginning of prosperity, the pigs are increasingly taking the lead and end up to establish a tyranny which is worse than the one the animals wanted to shoot down. Due to its content, the novel has been interpreted as a parable of the origin of the Soviet Union, and the betrayal of the revolution of October followed by Stalin dictatorship.
Description of the painting – In this painting there are four flowers (poppies, opium), two blacks and two reds, representing the totalitarian ideologies of four Countries: the German Nazism, the Italian fascism, the Soviet Union and the Chinese communism. The intersecting lines represent the energy, the excitement that precedes a revolution. Under this picture, there is another drawing representing some of the animals which are protagonists of Orwell’s novel.