[moovova]

Sigh...

[logi_cal869]

The ‘decline of art’ was initiated by the left via compulsory art as a percentage of public contracts.

Anyone with half a brain needs only look with open eyes at the results of ‘art welfare’ here in the US...

(true artists are often lost in the fog)

[Buttons12]

Art?
Heck, there are people my age who can’t read or write cursive, never mind art.

[rdcbn1]

Actually, the decline in art was the leading edge of the deconstruction of Western Culture and it drove the decline as much as it reflected the decline.

And the decline of culture is simply a symptom of the Left's all out , overt assault on Western Civilization.

The chant on America's campuses in the 1980’s “Ho, Ho, Western Civ has got to go. “

Looks like they got their way.

[KarlInOhio]

Any complaint about the move of art from representational to no representational has to include the effects of photography. What was previously an all day job for some painter or even drawer to created an image of a person or family became a few minutes of sitting in front of a box and some splashing of chemicals.

How much of "art as a profitable business" was wiped out in the mid-1800s? How many middling painters could have practiced on years of painting doctors' and merchants' families to become good? And how much of the "Art World's" criticism and complaints about J.S.Sargent or Bouguereau were sour grapes about photography destroying the business of representational art where only a very few of the best remaining artists could survive ?

[sphinx]

It just happens to be the case that on Earth’s competitive landscape, the culture built and developed by straight, Christian white males is the one that has generated the greatest increases in freedom, technology, and prosperity in human history. And it’s not even close. But because not everyone has shared equally in the material gains from that culture, it must be destroyed…

Yes. A sublimated and projected inferiority complex. And different cultures react differently because some have a great capacity to absorb and build on the best aspects of Western civilization. The really toxic hatred comes from those parts of the world that have never had much to contribute and that can't seem to adapt under any circumstances.