From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?

by guardian

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  1. Because it’s nearly always propaganda first and foremost. Yeah yeah, I know, there’s plenty of propaganda art from the other side too, but they tend to want to win oscars and other forms of adoration as their main motivation. Make good art with a message so everyone likes you. But the right seems to just push the message, with the art itself being of secondary concern.

  2. SeaEmployee787 on

    maga is about going backwards, art does not work like that. 30 percent ish of the people are maga, thats 70 percent ish not buying what maga is trying to sale. There is that also.

  3. Art comes from struggle, opression, longing, and the work of the dispirited and opressed is always bought up by the rich as a tax doge .

  4. NomNom83WasTaken on

    Art looks at the truth. It celebrates the unique and different; examines the ugly and uncomfortable. Art pushes forward and breaks boundaries. It revels in creation and loss of control. Art wants you to feel, it wants you to think. Even when it looks back, the best art also looks forward.

    “MAGA art” isn’t about beauty or truth or feeling or thinking — it’s about controlling a narrative. *It isn’t art, it’s propaganda.*

  5. Because when you’re a racist POS you only see one color which also means you’re missing out on some of the most talented people in the world.

  6. Art is made from things like introspection, empathy, education, connection, creativity.

    It’s hard to adopt any of that when your entire platform is hating other people and regression.

  7. HappyHarryHardOn on

    For about the same reason why all religious rock sucks

    if you do art for the sole reason of passing a message, well, your art sucks

  8. These are the same people pushing a.i. as the future of tv, movies, games, music and books. Artificial imagination, not intelligence.

    They’re almost all sociopaths so they don’t understand the nuance and emotional impact of the arts because they don’t really have emotional responses

  9. I always think of this everytime people bitch about ‘shows filled with liberal beliefs and morals and such’. Welllll maybeeeeee it’s because your beliefs and morals and attitudes and concept of art in general are all just fucking terrible? Like have you ever thought of that even once??

  10. RejectingBoredom on

    You know dude, say what you will of the tenants of national socialism, at least it was aesthetically striking.

  11. russ_knightlife on

    Because they (see Torys in the UK for the same but differen, not “conservatives” but a specific type of conservative) don’t believe in/understand the quality of art/creativity outside of its ability to sell/match a need.

    If MAGA mentality had been here since the dawn of time, art and creativity would never have existed because there would have been no need for it.

  12. Remember that one time that guy wanted to be a painter and he got rejected from art school so he lived a life that inspired Donald Trump? I think this is pretty common for these types of people.

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