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there is like one fanart for the accursed kings series on this website….im in the trenches

#i guess i’ll just look up medieval paintings instead

As a matter of fact, the main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda into them, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. Kitsch keeps a dictator in closer contact with the "soul" of the people. Should the official culture be one superior to the general mass-level, there would be a danger of isolation. Nevertheless, if the masses were conceivably to ask for avant-garde art and literature, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin would not hesitate long in attempting to satisfy such a demand. Hitler is a bitter enemy of the avant-garde, both on doctrinal and personal grounds, yet this did not prevent Goebbels in 1932-1933 from strenuously courting avant-garde artists and writers. When Gottfried Benn, an Expressionist poet, came over to the Nazis he was welcomed with a great fanfare, although at that very moment Hitler was denouncing Expres- sionism as Kulturbolschewismus. This was at a time when the Nazis felt that the prestige which the avant-garde enjoyed among the cultivated German public could be of advantage to them, and practical considerations of this nature, the Nazis being skillful politicians, have always taken precedence over Hider's personal inclinations. Later the Nazis realized that it was more practical to accede to the wishes of the masses in matters of culture than to those of their paymasters; the latter, when it came to a question of preserving power, were as willing to sacrifice their culture as they were their moral principles; while the former, precisely because power was being withheld from them, had to be cozened in every other way possible. It was necessary to promote on a much more grandiose style than in the democracies the illusion that the masses actually rule. The literature and art they enjoy and understand were to be proclaimed the only true art and literature and any other kind was to be suppressed. Under these circumstances people like Gottfried Benn, no matter how ardendy they support Hitler, become a liability; and we hear no more of them in Nazi Germany.

Clement Greenberg, Avant Garde and Kitsch

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" As for Mussolini-his case is a perfect example of the disponibi/ite of a realist in these matters. For years he bent a benevolent eye on the Futurists and built modernistic railroad stations and government-owned apartment houses. One can still see in the suburbs of Rome more modernistic apartments than almost anywhere else in the world. Perhaps Fascism wanted to show its up-to-dateness, to conceal the fact that it was a retrogression; perhaps it wanted to conform to the tastes of the wealthy elite it served. At any rate Mussolini seems to have realized lately that it would be more useful to him to please the cultural tastes of the Italian masses than those of their masters. The masses must be provided with objects of admiration and wonder; the latter can dispense with them. And so we find Mussolini announcing a "new Imperial style." Marinetti, Chirico, et al., are sent into the outer darkness, and the new railroad station in Rome will not be modernistic. That Mussolini was late in coming to this only illustrates again the relative hesitancy with which Italian Fascism has drawn the necessary implications of its role. "

laurierrose

“Actually I should be given a metal for it. I helped Society and other girls from the scums. The men are simply jealous plus fear other women will do the same justifiable thing . . .”

Aileen Wuornos, May 12th, 1992

mybeingthere

Hong Yong-Xin, Taiwanese

Hong Yung-Hsin (b. 1993, New Taipei City, Taiwan) graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University and later earned a master’s degree from the Department of Painting and Calligraphy Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. Integrating mineral pigments with elements of classical art, her works reflect on the evolving relationship between humans and animals. Using a fable-inspired approach, she revisits childhood connections with nature, drawing from ancient murals and folk art to depict animals as cultural symbols.

Favoring mineral pigments and greige fabric, she employs grinding and washing techniques to evoke the aged texture of murals. Influenced by ancient sculptures and miniature paintings, her works explore layered perceptions, offering a reflection on human nature.

Description by Hiro Hiro Art Space

HONG, YONG XIN SOLO EXHITBITION

rosieandthemoon

"Total Eclipse, June 8, 1937" by D. Owen Stephens

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gnomesittingunderalargetoadstool

i like it when characters are conflicted and unknowable to themselves and act in irrational ways and make bad decisions and are hypocritical because that's what real life is like

drank A LOT of prosecco last night took the tram drunk and smoked cigarettes watching the sun set by the tuscan hills #myeuropeansummer

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i hate encountering brazilians abroad….really the americans from south america

#they r all so snobbish and dumb its crazy

u guys don’t know how hard is being a romanesque/gothic woman in a renaissance city …💔💔💔 i should’ve gone to paris

my observations so far: europeans really don’t shower or use deodorant even in the summer, americans are really inbreeding looking even in comparison to the british, don’t understand why italians are considered dark skinned raunchy and loud they are very white and mild mannered

#maybe the last opinion is bc i’m from latam