Versions of this quote have been going around the art sphere
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (39)
sorted by:
Artist once again failing to realize that artist are what destroyed art. Thank Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso for destroying art. It was artists that rejected beauty and promoted grotesqueness. The were the murderers of the human hope. They were the foot soldiers of Communism. Fuck artists. I hope more of them starve.
Artists tend to be pseudo intellectuals. The deepest I introspection is when they draw one thing and mean their mother.
Plenty of intellectuals are pseudo intellectuals.
I can't disagree with that.
Makes all the sudo intellectuals like Thomas Sowell that much more precious.
Modern day artists are even worse.
Look at Hunter Biden for a good example. Just a way to grift money for people who are trying to avoid taxes and smuggling money out of the USA.
Artists deserve as much respect as prostitutes.
I've heard and briefly looked in to the idea that the CIA worked to sell people like Pollock, jazz, rock, and that sort of thing to American and European elite art circles to oppose Soviet Realism and expand America's social influence. Soviet Realist stuff, while heavily influenced by the state and a huge target of censorship, actually shows humanity. Which makes sense to me given that the previous Russian Empire turned out a ton of art that was explicitly about humanity.
I don't have time to go back down this rabbit hole but there are reddit (I know) posts like this that ultimately concludes "The CIA did not create modern art, this claim is flase" No shit Snopes.
Also, I have to include the top comment
Direct quote, emphasis mine. "Pseudo intellectuals" indeed.
Of course they don't teach you that in art history, but it's known and accepted by "mainstream" sources even.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom
Except that we know they did it because they were still doing it into the 21st century: when the idiot brigade tried to uplift Afghanistan, they decided highlighting degenerate Western art was the way to do it.
Comment Reported for: Rule 12 - Falsehoods
This is more dancing the line of Rule 2, but I'll allow it because I think it's a play on the "starving artist" statement.