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Again, I strongly encourage people to do research on how the Nazi party explicitly attacked modern art as being pointless and a threat to “Western civilization” as a way to discredit Jewish artists and any artist who spoke against the regime and to push them out of society. Modern artists lost their jobs, were ostracized by the art community, and the few pieces that were kept on display in museums were often targeted in fascist and antisemitic attacks.
This isn’t a conspuracy theory, it’s a very well recorded fact and it had a huge influence on the development of modern art and society’s view of it. You can’t separate the current hatred of modern art from its origins in fascism and trying to just inevitably means that you’re going to end up falling into that mindset.
I agree with all of this except that last line. I hate modern art for my own reasons, and that’s just because I don’t like the look of it.
Again, this is about widespread hatred of modern art. You can dislike it as much as you want, but to keep that dislike from sliding into fascist attitudes, you have to acknowledge that your dislike is personal and not an indication that modern art as a whole is inherently bad or wrong.
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