Thanks! Way more insight than I had on it. What about the pink triangle? I thought this stood out because unlike the suit and lack of head it was very non-generic. Assumed it was some sort of reference to modern homosexual men.
Personally I dont see how that would make any thematic sense in this case. Even though its a very good catch and a nice observation to relate to the Nazi era.
For my guess. Maybe it has to do with the triangle of death in Iraq, an area in Iraq which saw a lot of violence during the US occupation.
Pink for blood. Wearing it on his chest as an accomplishment with pride.
Members of the regular Republican Guards conventionally wore a scarlet-colored triangle insignia on both shoulders of their uniforms (sometimes backed with white material to form a white border around the edge of the triangle)
The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: حرس العراق الجمهوري, romanized: Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003, which existed primarily during the presidency of Saddam Hussein. Initially a praetorian guard unit tasked with the sole purpose to protect the president of Iraq, it grew exponentially during the Iran-Iraq War, transforming into an elite force of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It later became known as the Republican Guard Corps, and then the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC) with its expansion into two corps. The Republican Guard was disbanded in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led international coalition.
The red triangle appears in the 1917 flag of the Arab Revolt, with the color red symbolizing Arab independence and unity. The red triangle also appears in the derivative Palestinian flag, which was used during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against British rule and Jewish emigration. In a 1938 photograph, Palestinian rebels are seeing waving a black, white and green flag with a red triangle, with a cross and a crescent, symbolizing interreligious unity, inside the triangle.
Some media speculated that the symbol originates from Nazi concentration camp badges. However, the Nazis used the inverted red triangle to identify prisoners with political views opposed to Nazism, not necessarily Jewish prisoners.
The red triangle has been described as referring to the Hashemites or the ashraf of Mecca.
Thanks! Way more insight than I had on it. What about the pink triangle? I thought this stood out because unlike the suit and lack of head it was very non-generic. Assumed it was some sort of reference to modern homosexual men.
Personally I dont see how that would make any thematic sense in this case. Even though its a very good catch and a nice observation to relate to the Nazi era.
For my guess. Maybe it has to do with the triangle of death in Iraq, an area in Iraq which saw a lot of violence during the US occupation. Pink for blood. Wearing it on his chest as an accomplishment with pride.
or maybe this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Guard_(Iraq)
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Thats interesting, that interpretation would be an odd choice for the image unless ironic?
And nothing here shouts irony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Arab_Revolt 🤷
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Another very interesting fact. But again I don’t see how that would relate to this picture.
May just be it. But i dont get how
me neither, but that was all i could find while trying to understand
the painting reminds me of a scene from a film about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre. Sadly I can’t remember the name