If you ever wanted proof that beauty and value is objective and intrinsic , then just look at the paintings that the Just Stop Oil morons are vandalising.

They never attack ugly modern art because it looks like somebody threw a can of paint at a canvas to begin with .

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Bahahaha right? Meanwhile ugly modern art was a CIA operation to justify American ideals of freedom and independence (to be ugly and uninspired) over the soviet unions mandates for conformity to classical beauty norms

Interesting thesis.

Haven't read this man , but I will because I wan't to see what the whole thing is about .

The basics are that the government has a ton of money, so when people get rich off bullshit that makes no sense, it was probably the gov pushing a narrative.

Like NFT monke jpgs?

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Once the gov throws a bunch of money at something, society starts growing it’s own narrative about why and what and then 50 years later abstractionist art is all up on museum walls even tho it always was and still is… garbage.

Finally got around to reading this in full. It's mad that Pollock didn't even know that he was being used as a cultural weapon. Makes you wonder how many high profile "intellectuals" are useful idiots .

Exactly pawns thinking their knights.

They’re * ugh

“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.”

- Sir Roger Scruton

Perfect