Celebrating rather than exposing them
1. Does the green sentence mean "the soldiers whom I was painting probably thought I was painting their victory rather than their atrocities"?
2. Does the orange sentence mean "They would have said 'It shows our boys vertical and the gooks down. That’s a victory painting. Just like the Romans and the Greeks showed off their victories, the winners and the losers' "?
Context:
The well-trained and highly regarded Leon Golub observed:
And the guys I portray, one could say I was celebrating rather than exposing them. For example, if the Pentagon had wanted, they could have displayed one of [my] huge Vietnam paintings and claimed it as a victory painting. It shows our boys vertical and the gooks down. That’s a victory painting. Just like the Romans and the Greeks showed off their victories, the winners and the losers. So why is this an anti-war painting?
Top answer
1. No. "One" refers to "someone/anyone" or "people in general", not to a person portrayed.
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- "One" refers to "someone/anyone" or "people in general", not to a person portrayed.
- The sentence means "One could say (that) I was celebrating rather than exposing the guys (that) I portray".
- The object, "the guys I portray", has been brought to the front for emphasis or other stylistic reasons, or perhaps just because it came into the speaker's mind first.
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1. No. "One" refers to "someone/anyone" or "people in general", not to a person portrayed. The sentence means "One could say (that) I was celebrating rather than exposing the guys (that) I portray". The object, "the guys I portray", has been brought to the front for emphasis or other stylistic reasons, or perhaps just because it came into the speaker's mind first.
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