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title: A Painter's View of His Country, No. 1 poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/painters-view-of-his-country-no-1-thai-1964/
description: A Thai-language art sheet showing three paintings by artists from Pakistan, Thailand and New Zealand, with a portrait and biography of each.
section: Collection
---

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# A Painter's View of His Country, No. 1 poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)

A Thai-language art sheet showing three paintings by artists from Pakistan, Thailand and New Zealand, with a portrait and biography of each. A green banner carries the title and the line that the language every nation understands is the language of art. The tell is glittering generalities in the universal-art line, with transfer of artistic prestige to the program; the printed credit names the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization as publisher.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Thai) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
บ้านเมืองในสายตาของจิตรกร - 1
ภาษาที่ทุกชาติเข้าใจ คือ ภาษาของศิลป์

"ตำข้าว"--ภาพสีน้ำมันฝีมือ เค. เอ. ปาเซ็ท ศิลปินปากีสถาน

"ไปตักบาตร์" ภาพสีแกะไม้ ฝีมือประหยัด พงศ์ดำ ศิลปินไทย

"ไร่ยาสูบ พังงาโตตารา เนลสัน" ภาพสีน้ำมัน ฝีมือ ดอริส ลัสค์ ศิลปินนิวซีแลนด์

[three biographical paragraphs beside portraits: illegible at this resolution]

องค์การสนธิสัญญาเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ (สปอ.) จัดพิมพ์
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The Country in the Painter's Eyes - 1
The language every nation understands is the language of art

"Rice Pounding" - oil painting by K. A. Paseth, Pakistani artist

"Going to Offer Alms" - colour woodcut by Prayat Pongdam, Thai artist

"Tobacco Farm, [place name] Nelson" - oil painting by Doris Lusk, New Zealand artist

[three biographical paragraphs beside portraits: illegible at this resolution]

Published by the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
```

Thai text read from the image; the biographies and one place name are uncertain.

[← Army Is Your Career Path poster, PPB-333 (Vietnamese, Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/army-is-your-career-path-ppb-333-vietnamese-saigon-1964/) [Communist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communist-aggression-asias-final-battle-introduction-1964/)

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