Why was political art from the interwar period so much more kino then anything before or since?
>>18021682Generations cycle between leftwing/liberal, Moralistic, and optimistic to cynical, edgy, and rightwing. The latter tend to create art that subverts the current era.cynical generations:The lost generation/Silent generation/Gen X/Gen Zoptimistic generations:Missionary generation/Greatest generation/Boomers/Gen Y/Gen Alpha
Interwar Period > WW2/WW1
>>18021682Was Mussolini a JoJo fan or something?
>>18021709Italian Fascist art was more on the optimistic end though. They were quite liberal when it came to art too, unlike the Nazis, many styles were allowed.
>>18021682It's a reflection of your political views. Futurism was part of fascism's aesthetic. Fascism attempts to legitimise collectivist (or collectivist looking) authoritarianism by crafting the identity of the citizen through an aesthetic of unity. The state gets involved with the identity of the individual as a matter of policy in fascism by creating or adopting a system of aesthetics that encourages the individual to identify the state with themselves which is ironically what China is doing which most western liberals condemn.
>>18021723Its not just Futurism or other fascist adjacent art movements. Socialist Realism in the USSR also beats out most forms of political art. If anything it just seems that revolutionary movements create better political art then what is found in non-revolutionary society
>>18021682It was a highly experimental period. Probably had something to do with the shock of World War I. Dadaism is an interesting example of a left-wing art form at the time. I think it has a lot in common with industrial music of the 90s:https://youtu.be/PTFwQP86BRs(One of the earlier industrial bands, Cabaret Voltaire, named themselves after a Dadaist theatre in Switzerland.)
https://youtu.be/RWjBPIbJMzY
Degenerate art.
>>18022517Futurism mogs whatever shitty art you enjoy
>>18021682Hey Rei
Avant garde trends in art colliding with vigorous extreme ideologies both left and right
It was much different from art after WWII because abstract expressionism and pop art often receded from explicit political stakes, because capitalism co-opted art markets.
>>18022541You mean this?
>>18021682This has now become an aeropittura thread.
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>>18024777Yes 1000 times
>fascists and communists used to create legitimate art>now it's been reduced to a stream of the Fresh Commissar of Bel-Air and Wokeys Owned compilationsGrim
>>18024795This is fucking sick.
>>18024777That painting is based my fellow chud, but you must now develop the nerve and taste to be able to discriminate worthy non-representational works, too, rather than just larping as a fusty salon zealot (the lazy way of appearing cultivated).Italian futurism is awesome
>>18024783Holy shit this looks amazing
>>18021682Not the whole story but an important ingredient: European imperialism meant far more young French, British, Italian etc people were circulating in and out of occupied parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania working jobs for colonial governments and companies. In the process they were exposed to the local art styles, choice of materials and different techniques than back home. Some incorporated that into their own art, which made theirs stand out and attract attention. That's a component of the conservative freakouts and the Nazi campaign against "degenerate art." (The Italian fascists were more open to it) The cultural influence was flowing both directions between the colonizers and colonized, "civilized" and "uncivilized" and seeing white European artists adopting African, Indian etc elements was something that creeped them out. It was supposed to only flow in one direction, from the colonizers onto the colonized.
