Its not just about the money. Its about the actual art no matter how its funded.
Art is part of the fabric of culture and the communists name taking control of artistic expression as a stated goal and they’ve been very successful.
A while back I read an article about how photographers become successful. Basically it said to hang around gay people, photograph them doing gay things, be gay yourself, and push a message.
Political art has always existed and will always have a place but its extremely damaging when it infects all. Its kind of like politicized science. Imagine where we would be today if Jonas Salk had been outspoken against abortion or gay marriage in today’s world.
You make a very important observation regarding how art is part of the fabric of any culture. It has a profound impact the creators and consumers of culture.
We always use the phrase “Is it art imitating life, or life imitating art?” It should be broaden and rephrased to “Does culture imitate life, or life imitate culture?”
Our culture in general, along with the education system, where conservatives must refocus our energy going forward. That is how the left has taken over this country.
While we were winning elections off-and-on in the 60s and 70s, and during the Reagan Revolution, the left were laying the foundations for future success in the media, education system, arts, Hollywood, etc.
America has been brainwashed now into a center-left country. That’s how it was done.
Just look at Hollywood....Talk about mind control...Filth and perversion and violence. Humpback mountain is a perfect example of fags at work.
Amusing theory with much more than a grain of truth, especially as regards fashion, mainstream media or pop culture. But it wasn't always so. I'm thinking of the history of photography here:
• Matthew Brady chronicled the Civil War when photography was a fairly new medium; and photographers were central to news and documentation of the World Wars and other pre-satellite political events;As one very important individual example of critically important photographic documentation, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that the horrors of the Holocaust be photographed so that a genocide of that depravity would not be forgotten and could not reasonably be denied. (Not that the Middle East isn't trying...)• Photographers have always documented individuals, family members, schoolchildren, organizational activities and social events, in addition to their crucial role in news stories, crimes and other forensic reporting;
• Artists like Ansel Adams (nature), and photojournalists like Dorothea Lange (the dustbowl) and Alfred Steiglitz (city life in mid-20th century) have added important insight about our nation;
• National Geographic photographers and those who photograph architecture and antiquities for publication have added immeasurably to cultural understanding worldwide.