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And many Christian churches prominently display art featuring Satan. It's always less about what is actually in the picture and more about the message the pictu
by jltsiren 1y ago
And many Christian churches prominently display art featuring Satan. It's always less about what is actually in the picture and more about the message the picture is supposed to send and how people actually interpret it.
Hitler and Nazis have been used as comic reliefs in Western popular culture. You can supposedly make anything more funny in an absurd way by adding some gratuitous Nazis. Communist leaders such as Stalin and Mao are often used ironically. Sometimes because people find the socialist realism art style aesthetically pleasing, and sometimes due to the irony of turning a communist leader into commercial art.
- socalgal2 1y agoMao portraits are not posted as comic relief, nor are they posted a warnings of what not to be like picture of Satan.
- jltsiren 1y agoDo you know the motivations of those who hanged Mao portraits, or are you just guessing? I wouldn't know, as I'm not even sure I had seen Warhol's Mao portraits before today. But I've known plenty of people who went to a current or former commmunist country and brought back ironic communist kitsch.
- socalgal2 1y agoBringing back communist kitsch is not the same as posting a picture of a mass murderer. I have communist kitsch, in particular from China. The graphic design is amazing. I still don't get what you don't get. I think most people get why most people wouldn't hang picture so Hitler. If anyone deserves to be considered just as bad and just as worthy of not being displayed as decoration it certainly seems to be Mao