The work Direct Objects, made in 1974, shows three jars: a water-filled jar with a blooming red carnation, an empty one with a taped mouth and a flower hanging out of it, and finally a water-filled empty jar with a carnation taped next to it. Underneath, the artist placed a quotation from the then published book by Nora Aradi (Symbols of Socialist Art), which deals with the symbol of the flower. The work is thus both a tautology in the Kosuthian sense and a visual response to the political situation. Here GALÁNTAI “depicts” the sentence “there is a use of the flower motif where the flower is used to characterise the environment”, but not from the official point of view, but from the point of view of the 3 Ts (Forbidden, Tolerated, Supported) that afflicted the avant-garde.