Putin The Poseur

 

Roar Hagen, Ukraine freely after Ilya Repin, February 25, 2022.

Putin never looks beyond his own body. His eyes stay within himself and Roar Hagen cites the grand art history on the ultimate horror of the father having murdered his own son. Ilya Repin painted the original scene in which Ivan the Terrible has killed his son in a fit of rage. The focus of the painting lies in the distress beyond all measures of the father; his eyes lit with the nightmare of his own action. 

In Roar Hagen's scene there is no forgiveness from the dying son, personified by Putin's Ukrainian counterpart. His life has already been extinguished, while Putin is posing for his full frontal portrait. He is a poseur, a sham and Roar placing him in the frame of the grand history Putin so wishes to place himself into, exposes him to the full.

Oh, the black holes for eyes as if windows rimmed by soot in a bombed building...

The cartoon shown is courtesy of Roar Hagen and must not be reproduced without acknowledging his name.