Why did it die? Skill issue? It's not like religion is poor or is it?
>>7825158I wouldn’t say they died, they just don’t have as much of a place in modern society. Religious art is still very commonplace. It’s just that most of the major biblical concepts have been explored and created already
>>7825158how many sistine chapels were built since michelangelo?
>>7825195@grok answer that
>>7825158Because most countries stopped revolving around religion and the few that do are iconoclastic. Also there's more forms of media now like television/film, podcasts, musical records, phone applications, etc.
>>7825158Religion no longer holds any real significance as a societal construct.
>>7825158-Invention of photography-Protestants-The Church losing the power that it used to have. As in ABSOLUTE power that it had. The Catholic church, or pretty much every religion, does still have "money", but that money doesn't translate 1:1 to power as it did back then.There's probably multiple answers to it, you can even argue that it hasn't really died, it's just that current age religious paintings are often considered "tacky" or "kitsch" so they aren't really famous.The Medici family was pretty much responsible for the Renaissance, in an almost "selfless" love and "want" to create culture and leave a mark in history.Current billionaires don't really operate that way, and art doesn't have the same dynamic that it used to have back then.Rich families used to pretty much finance artists' lives in order for them to have all the free time in the world to create art, in contrast, nowadays art is almost entirely self funded, and largely self educated.Ultimately, I like to think it in the same way as Greeks used to have their Gods in paintings and statues everywhere, then those civilizations died. Then the Romans came and stole/copied everything of the Greeks, but also changed a lot. As in, the Romans imitated their style, and even statues of their Gods (although they renamed them), but you also see a lot of statues and paintings of actual people who lived. Emperors, generals, noble families, etc.
>>7828075This is not only illustrated on the subjects that the Romans decided to represent, but also on the style. Roman statues are way more realistic, and less stylized than Greek's (this changes towards the end of the Roman empire as they start to stylize more, but the point still stands). This also correlates with their culture, while the Greeks likely did believe in the Gods and their stories, the Romans didn't, they adopted their beliefs and customs for The Civilization that was the Roman empire, similarly to current day pagans who do the same.Then come the dark ages and religion supresses and destroys a lof of the pagan art that had remained.The printing press is invented, the world changes. And then comes the Renaissance, which was a arguably (or maybe not) a very intentional "happening". Not only does Christian iconography, and realism, make a come back, but the pagan stories of the old civilizations do too. And you get this mix of the old aesthetics of the Romans and Greeks combined with the Catholic symbols and subject matter.And then the new wolrd is discovered, mass migration, multiple cultures mix in this new world, industrialization happens, and the world changes forever.Hegel writes a very funny book.Somewhere in between all that "God dies" and people start to worship ideologies, their nationalities (birth of nationalism, and arguably nations all together). Revolutions start to happen, communism and facism are "invented".Here Italy, Germany, the US, the USSR, and many more start to create art but instead of worshipping a God now they worship The Workers (USSR) (Socialist Realism), The German People (Nazis), but more consistently THE NATION and its people.What people worship throughout the times has changed, and will continue to change. Styles of governments, the times, what came before, and the current state of society determines a lot of what people decide to do art about, or what the government forces them to make art about.
>>7828081So what grand force is compelling artists to shit out 10,000 pics of the same exact gacha whores from Blue Archive and Genshin Impact every single day
>>7828109Waifus are more relevant to modern society than god.God will never give you a Waifu no matter how hard you pray, but capitalism respects a trade. Your worship of Waifu is rewarded with an increase of choice and supply.
>>7828109>So what grand force is compelling artists to shit out 10,000 pics of the same exact gacha whores from Blue Archive and Genshin Impact every single dayYou answered your own question, these artists worship weeb shit. There is really no singular thing that people worship anymore, as there's no force to enforce it.Due to the internet, and how easy it is to learn "art", art has been democratized, just like how the printing press "democratized knowledge", which after that everyone started writing fiction, and writing books about trivial things. Now the same has happened with art, and multiple other things.The answer to OP, is that religious art still happens, it just looks tacky, and is not as popular as it once was.Unless a country is created in which Christian Nationalism is the norm, then I doubt we will see a resurgence of religious art, that or a divine revelation must happen for it to come back.Religion is simply not really much relevant to the current times. But the truth is, God has simply been replaced by other things, like ideology, and the Nation.
>>7825158White people adopted Scientism over Religion. Once Churches went out of the picture. Artists literally have lost a reliable institution to fund their stuff.Now artists have to advertise themselves like whores or starve.Governments prioritizes maintaining dominance over territory, and none of that Art shit. People taxpayers get the mass produced shit.Kids that display Painting skill at early age are Literally born in the wrong centuryAlso concept artists as a career for painters literally ended 2 decades ago. So, If you find a well paying art job, make sure to keep it to yourself. you have at least 3 generations of artists on standby to overwhelm that.
>>7825164>Religious art is still very commonplace.Sure, but the vast majority of that is the painter themselves expressing their religious views via their work, not the church commissioning anyone.When was the last great church building built? When was a fresco or mural last commissioned by a church from a great or renowned artist?I think part of the reason for the drop-off in faith from more modern generations is because the church used to portray themselves as transcendent, their image was highly curated with the greatest building architecture and art; even in a more local sense, the church was usually the most beautiful building in the area... Now? the churches are often cheap local halls, with no stain glass windows, no murals, no sense of grandeur. These religious organisations inherited a gorgeous garden grown by their predecessors that attracted so many visitors - and left it to rot - and now they wonder why people stopped visiting. But hey, the pope has a new golden hat and another shitty car with a glass box on the back.The modern church should have been making all sorts of media, from religious movies, to religious comics, with only the best talents - but they dropped the ball on that long before any of us were born.Now religious media is seen as kitschy jokes, and often have little money put into them - and again, are more often than not made by passionate church goers, rather than the church.The idiots didn't realise how important their image was, and how important art was to that image, and I wonder if they still haven't realised that.
>>7828137I hate to tell you this, but there was this guy named Martin Luther, and he had some rather controversial ideas.
>>7828142I can't say I'm well read enough on history to know if he had opinions on architecture and art as well, but what of the churches that rejected his ideas?
>>7828153We call them Catholics and they still do build cathedrals and have a guy with a fancy hat, several in fact.
>>7828155>and have a guy with a fancy hat, several in fact.I already somewhat gave my opinion on that.You say that they're still building great architectural buildings, but do you have an example? My view is that they have essentially stopped building such things outside of Vatican City.There seems to be one grand cathedral being built in Spain, started in the 1800's, but that's a project from the past and they're not going to stop it now, so what are they building now that's on a similar scale - if not on timeline - but in grandeur?
>>7828172This is in Poland and started construction in 1994, finished in 2004. Cathedrals haven't gone anywhere.
>>7828181Hell, America hasn't been here very long and there are dozens of cathedrals there. There's even some wacky modernist ones.
>>7828181>>7828182Hmm, maybe I'm just basing my view here entirely on my own experience? I've never seen a modern church that was anything so nice, locally, or when travelling.I'll say I'm perhaps jumping the gun when it comes to architecture then.
>>7828172If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_church_buildings quite a few are fairly recent
Russia's satanic millitary church is a gorgeous shitpost.
>>7828243looks like AI slop
>>7828262It's so schizophrenic it might as well be.
>>7828075Ive yet so see a photograph of a biblical story that is as compelling as a painting.
>>7828277what's "schizophrenic" about it? it's a common christian theme
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>>7828387prolly the fact it canonizes soldiers from a state that was notoriously atheist
>>7825158Luther made the Catholic Church stop the sale of indulgences.
>>7828277Do you have a picture of the painting where they drew Putin?
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>>7828423Truly amazing
>>7828423imagine the patience to complete one of these
>>7828410what soldiers does it canonize?
>>7825158>>7825158>>7828075>>7828081Little hats hate christianism and they control global cultural narrative and capital flow. They want to replace Christmas for Helloween, and they are succeeding.>>7828416Luther was an (((agent))), they succeeded in breaking apart the western christian civilization, first when -they- from Venice financed the fall of Constantinople (Read Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice), and after that with Luther, and they went even further in the brittish islands where they settled. From there they expanded the masonic antichrist virus to america with the Mormon, and evangelicals, all movements originated from that perverted and fucked up English "Protestantism". The catholic Irish (real christians) saved america, but not for long. Satan is ruling now the west.
>>7828410Being on a fresco doesn't mean you're canonized, you'll note that the soldiers don't have halos. Also, Christianity literally canonized the Roman soldier that killed Christ, picrel is the statue to him in the Vatican
