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When I looked at it I thought it looked dreary and "communist" somehow.. don't know why but I looked the artist up and yep... he was a communist. Is that a thin

When I looked at it I thought it looked dreary and "communist" somehow.. don't know why but I looked the artist up and yep... he was a communist. Is that a thing? Communist art style?

ggm 4y ago
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- remarkEon 4y ago
  I don't like it either, but the reason I don't like has less to do with the fact that this is communist art, which yeah I sometimes find to be pretty ugly, and more with how it clashes with the neoclassical architecture of the actual building. It looks like graffiti to me, but well intentioned and obviously done with a lot of effort. Naturally this is all subjective.
  - twobitshifter 4y ago
    This is intentional for the art style. In Mexican Muralism, the indigenous identity of Mexico was being displayed in public in the buildings of the colonizers. “Many of the murals from the muralist project took on monumental status because of where they were situated, mostly on the walls of colonial era government buildings and the themes that were painted.[5] The mural painters of Mexico freely shared ideas and techniques in public spaces in order to capture the attention of the masses.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_muralism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_muralism
  - ggm 4y ago
    Fair. But asking an artist to reach back into time and decorate in a style not theirs, is probably a recipe for disaster. They hate it, unless they own it. You might have struggled to find one with a big name in 1930s America who was up to the job. All the federal and state public architecture of the recovery era have massive socialist realist or cubist relief sculptures all over them. Post offices, the Hoover dam, you name it. It was the look.
- seabird 4y ago
  What's with the fascist art jab? The parent was asking about socialist/communist art without making any comment on the politics of it. Why are you implying they would like fascist art in particular?
  - ggm 4y ago
    Do you think? "I don't like communist art" invites the alternative. "I don't like this style of art" doesn't.
    - seabird 4y ago
      You're not making any sense. The original post implied that they didn't like communist art, not that they didn't like communism. Even if they were saying that they didn't like communism, fascism is not the only alternative to it.
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havblue 4y ago
My father pointed out how it's Communist art when I saw it as a kid. It always struck me as odd that it was displayed so prominently, as if to say, "Were Detroit. You know we're about cars. But we're also about ultimately giving the proletariat control over the means of production! Detroit shall rise again!" At least it made more of an impression on me than impressionist paintings of hay stacks I guess...

When I looked at it I thought it looked dreary and "communist" somehow.. don't know why but I looked the artist up and yep... he was a communist. Is that a thing? Communist art style?

ggm 4y ago

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remarkEon 4y ago
I don't like it either, but the reason I don't like has less to do with the fact that this is communist art, which yeah I sometimes find to be pretty ugly, and more with how it clashes with the neoclassical architecture of the actual building. It looks like graffiti to me, but well intentioned and obviously done with a lot of effort. Naturally this is all subjective.
- twobitshifter 4y ago
  This is intentional for the art style. In Mexican Muralism, the indigenous identity of Mexico was being displayed in public in the buildings of the colonizers. “Many of the murals from the muralist project took on monumental status because of where they were situated, mostly on the walls of colonial era government buildings and the themes that were painted.[5] The mural painters of Mexico freely shared ideas and techniques in public spaces in order to capture the attention of the masses.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_muralism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_muralism
- ggm 4y ago
  Fair. But asking an artist to reach back into time and decorate in a style not theirs, is probably a recipe for disaster. They hate it, unless they own it. You might have struggled to find one with a big name in 1930s America who was up to the job. All the federal and state public architecture of the recovery era have massive socialist realist or cubist relief sculptures all over them. Post offices, the Hoover dam, you name it. It was the look.
seabird 4y ago
What's with the fascist art jab? The parent was asking about socialist/communist art without making any comment on the politics of it. Why are you implying they would like fascist art in particular?
- ggm 4y ago
  Do you think? "I don't like communist art" invites the alternative. "I don't like this style of art" doesn't.
  - seabird 4y ago
    You're not making any sense. The original post implied that they didn't like communist art, not that they didn't like communism. Even if they were saying that they didn't like communism, fascism is not the only alternative to it.
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havblue 4y ago

My father pointed out how it's Communist art when I saw it as a kid. It always struck me as odd that it was displayed so prominently, as if to say, "Were Detroit. You know we're about cars. But we're also about ultimately giving the proletariat control over the means of production! Detroit shall rise again!" At least it made more of an impression on me than impressionist paintings of hay stacks I guess...