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The Decline of Art in Western Culture Parallels the Decline of Everything Else
American Thinker ^ | 12/14/2023 | Vince Coyner

Posted on 12/14/2023 9:51:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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Maurucio Catelan's Comedian at the Art Basel Miami Beaxh sold for $120,000
1 posted on 12/14/2023 9:51:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a simple definition of Art:

If I could do it, it ain’t Art.


2 posted on 12/14/2023 9:52:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah maybe, but check out your prose and wit...


3 posted on 12/14/2023 9:57:17 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Creativity, imagination and subsequent intelligence creates good: art, music comedy etc.....

Conform or else totalitarianism is the direct opposite.

They destroyed comedy-art, music etc....will follow.

They’re so ignorant as Dr Seuss is getting cancelled 90% of the creative arts folks are clapping along.


4 posted on 12/14/2023 10:02:57 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: SeekAndFind
Glasses prank at SF Museum of modern Art.


5 posted on 12/14/2023 10:19:58 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: dfwgator
That's not strictly true.   
6 posted on 12/14/2023 10:20:28 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: Reverend Wright
Can you steal it and sell it as an art piece?

There ya go.

7 posted on 12/14/2023 10:21:52 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: kiryandil

Can you steal it and sell it as an art piece?


No !!!!

The contextualization is destroyed if you take the glasses to the Lost and Found.

Philistine !


8 posted on 12/14/2023 10:29:39 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Suddenly, art was no longer a vehicle for vanity or the celebration of greatness or storytelling.

On the contrary, it seems that art has become nothing but a vehicle for vanity. Talent be damned.

9 posted on 12/14/2023 10:46:04 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Contrast and compare.

Jill Biden Christmas Video (Featuring drag queens)

VS

Melania Trump Christmas Video (Featuring Jesus)

https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1735222529252266001

The left believes Biden’s video is “Art”.


10 posted on 12/14/2023 10:52:10 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Reverend Wright
If all the people who understood the context are at the bottom of a backhoe pit, was it ever really art at all?  

"If a tree falls in a forest..."

11 posted on 12/14/2023 11:02:46 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: Reverend Wright

12 posted on 12/14/2023 11:10:52 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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To: kiryandil

Amazing that the USSR would do the re-creation of that.

I don’t think any Western country would have bothered.


14 posted on 12/15/2023 1:00:33 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is evident in the way people dress to appear in public. It seems the goal is to be sloppy.

I remember seeing a newsreel of fans at a pro-football game around 1948. The fans were dressed in coats and ties.

Historians say the degenerate hippie culture of the sixties won out entirely.


15 posted on 12/15/2023 3:02:29 AM PST by odawg
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I always dress up while traveling, though I do wear hiking boots. Don’t expect me to go saving some fat slob wearing flip flops.


16 posted on 12/15/2023 3:21:36 AM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: metmom

Review the 47 planks or goals as listed in The Naked Communist.
One of the goals was to have culture turn on itself - to degrade, offend or demoralize.
Music, visual arts and movies were used to destroy the Christian culture.

controlled demolition


17 posted on 12/15/2023 3:28:26 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: SeekAndFind

[Wonder how that’s holding up?]


18 posted on 12/15/2023 3:29:50 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html


19 posted on 12/15/2023 3:35:09 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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They seem to have fulfilled their goals, which sets up a nation ready to accept the Beast in Revelation.


20 posted on 12/15/2023 3:48:38 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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