Subject: Re: "It is predominantly the Right that has created, and continues to create, good art."
The Horny Goat <
lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:27:54 -0500, Found Elsewhere <posts@everywhere.net>:
In fact, it is predominantly the Right that has created, and continues to >>create, good art. All the little left-wing fantasy authors are imitating >>Tolkien, not Michael Moorcock. The giants of art, music, and literature are >>so unabashedly white, European, and male to such an extent it was necessary >>to invent a whole series of fake awards to permit the Left to pretend that >>what passed for their art was even art at all, let alone good.
So do you give the credit to the Pope or to Michelangelo for the
Sistine chapel and do you consider either of these 'left' or 'right'
(I'm not convinced these are relevant to the present day terms for
left and right since perspectives change over 400-500 years. One could
make the same argument concerning the Greeks and Romans)
He forgot "heterosexual" and "cis-gendered male" and "top 1%". Doesn't
every art historian with modern sensibilities declare every important historical artist to be gay, or that females depicted in statues are
just bodies of nude male youths with breasts added? It may not have been practical -- or legal -- for a female youth to pose.
Also, we damn well know that artwork commissioned and displayed (if not
built into) the Vatican itself has been censored by later Popes offended
by the depiction of the human body.
Nothing lends itself readily to modern re-interpretation without forcing
facts to change to suit the very neat explanation.
It's amazing that in Europe, in which those posing for art were not only Europeans but in the same village as the artist (shockingly, also
European), and that those patrons commissioning the art were European
came up with Euro-centric art.
How much Christian-themed art were Africans creating centuries before
they were converted?
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