Lissitzky's "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"?[1] You miss the fact that despite the fact painters were very politically active before WW2, it made zero dif

Lissitzky's "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"?[1] You miss the fact that despite the fact painters were very politically active before WW2, it made zero difference to the horrors that happened afterwards (and many artists, such as the futurists, were even complicit, or, like the Russian avant-garde, got purged). Also, photography killed realism in painting. Painting turned its eye inwards, trying to express inner feelings, rather than realistic things. (We also have a biased view because we only remember masterpieces from older times. For one Henri Rousseau, there were thousands of dull portraits of patrons and bland nature mortes) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red_Wedge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red...