It is an easily accessible work, that the Dadaist Duchamp would label "retinal art", as it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... The painting conforms to stereotypical representations of the male body who is an agent of action, the rowers enforce their will upon the elements of nature (water, wind) and surge forward to the finish line, symbolic of the glorious future. ... These two elements, the reference to the past, and the celebration of the Nordic physicality, work to imbue the Nazi's political program (represented by its leader) as principled, trus...

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