well yeah, I've compared flemish paintings of game and fruits to instagram photos of food at expensive restaurants. But Art and visual language is a tool and any tool can be used by the ruling class and its dialectical opposite. Countless statues were erected to dictators and the achievements of the ruling class; simultaneously hundreds of artifacts have been found at mining sites and slave camps where people dedicated artistic offerings to the Gods for relief and salvation.
well yeah, I've compared flemish paintings of game and fruits to instagram photos of food at expensive restaurants. But Art and visual language is a tool and any tool can be used by the ruling class and its dialectical opposite. Countless statues were erected to dictators and the achievements of the ruling class; simultaneously hundreds of artifacts have been found at mining sites and slave camps where people dedicated artistic offerings to the Gods for relief and salvation.