Art is usually implicitly on the right. However, populist rightist critics who just want us to go back to representational painting or “chocolate box” painting do not understand art. Yes, the Sistine Chapel and Mona Lisa are very nice...
...but there’s a reason why we don’t do things like that now. Walter Benjamin’s critique is correct, industrial mass production changed the nature of art (as did photography). And when the 3D printer bot can knock out 100 David’s an hour...that’s another change.
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That’s why, although there’s still interesting space to be explored through representational or “traditional” forms, it’s no good demanding that everyone paints like Da Vinci—or insisting that Tracey Emin or whoever is “immoral” or talentless.
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Art is now, has been for sometime, much more about exploring feelings and ideas. Indeed, insofar as art is representational it is interesting for being excessively machine-like, as in hyper-realism. We are impressed that a human can paint as sharply as a machine, only moreso.
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