The Partisans is an aluminum sculpture in Four Point at the World Trade Center, constructed in 1979. Polish born Andrzej Pitynki, the creator of this sculpture, created this piece to depict five Polish anti-communist fighters, nicknamed "cursed soldiers", and dedicated it to freedom fighters across the world.
This is by far the most expressive piece I've encountered so far. In its abstraction and distortion of the shapes, it conveys the emotion that more literal pieces are unable to.
The emaciated bodies and low-hung heads of both the soldiers and horses convey the ideas of exhaustion and deprivation; these are defining characteristics of these "cursed soldiers" who take on the burden of fighting a greater power (in this case, communist Russia after the takeover of Poland that followed World War Two) to preserve the freedom of themselves and their people.
The Partisans are in no manner cheery, but instead communicate the raw truth of what it means to be a freedom fighter. They may look desperate and weary, but they still hold their backs straight with the pride and the honor they each possess and preserve in their long fight for freedom.
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