fascists and communists are united in their hatred of "degenerate" art, so i'm fine with it. if exposing the citizens of the USSR to Modern American art advanced the fall of the soviet union then w/e, if it also happened to give Rothko money to paint then that's a solid win.— cognitohazard (@bryanarchyNOW) June 3, 2021
Socialist Realism kinda sucks ass, people aren’t just dumb sheep that dont understand or value art unless it’s the most two dimensional portrayal of working class shit
Geez I just like painting of swole dudes driving tractors and shit, give me a break man
Thats fine but officializing it as like "proletarian art" is at best patronizing and at worst ends up paralleling nationalist propaganda and art, the art in itself isnt "bad" or whatever but the thought behind it definitely has a lot of bad ideas to it.
Constructivism was bad ass and it sucks that it was ignored in favor of socialist realism.
There was a huge amount of artistic creativity flowing out of the Soviet bloc anyways, even with the state sanctioned realism. Which didn't even last that long, just look at the posters here. Socialist Realism was the Greco-Roman domes and columns of the Soviet bloc. Just an artistic choice for state stuff and not something that was necessarily pervasive outside that.
Geez I just like painting of swole dudes driving tractors and shit, give me a break man
Thats fine but officializing it as like "proletarian art" is at best patronizing and at worst ends up paralleling nationalist propaganda and art, the art in itself isnt "bad" or whatever but the thought behind it definitely has a lot of bad ideas to it.
Constructivism was bad ass and it sucks that it was ignored in favor of socialist realism.
There was a huge amount of artistic creativity flowing out of the Soviet bloc anyways, even with the state sanctioned realism. Which didn't even last that long, just look at the posters here. Socialist Realism was the Greco-Roman domes and columns of the Soviet bloc. Just an artistic choice for state stuff and not something that was necessarily pervasive outside that.
One of my favorites from that album
And this
And this
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Kinda SR, but I still like it