I was looking at the Motherland Calls the other day, and I was curious what everyone's favorite pieces of art or sculpture are.
Despite not being really left leaning, the Vietnam War Memorial in DC always hits me, since it truly is a scar on the ground, reflecting the horror of war (while also completely negating any victims who weren't American soldiers).
I don't know if the Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue series are my favorite paintings, but the story around them is so great they're definitely in my top five.
People love to jerk themselves into a frenzy over abstract art, and I love seeing people's insane reactions to it in the same way that I love going into subredditdrama to look at internet people being crazy for no reason. These particular paintings have been repeated targets of knife attacks, but what's even stranger is that despite how simple the painting seems it turns out there's subtle things going on because when they tried to restore it everyone could instantly tell that the restoration was botched. This lead to the gallery running it through a second restoration, and the first guy who restored it suing the city that owned the gallery for defamation.
Fascists in particular really love to hate abstract art, and I wonder if that's part of the reason why I'm attracted to it.