Posted on 06/30/2017 1:53:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
As stated in the video, despair and suppression (ever see the Asians especially Chinese on their way to work?) is the goal. Realism and beauty point to the Creator and is forbidden.
There is a small group of artists who are still painting realistically and they are wonderful. Also, takes much much more time to paint realistically. One artist I know takes months on one painting. An artist I saw in Chicago in the 80’s spent a year on one painting.
Communist takeover plan #15
Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
http://commieblaster.com/news/communist-takeover-plan.html
Corporations have at least some sense of balance when they contract with an architect for a headquarters building or a regional office. They must consider how a new building is going to enhance their product marketing, productivity, employee morale, public perception, etc. But above all, the building's purpose, cost and life expectancy have to fit with the corporation's long-term projections for growth and profitability.
No such constraints would likely apply for a federal building, a VA hospital, or a federal courthouse. (I was looking for a sketch of a proposed mint from the 1980s but couldn't find it. Talk about form before function!)
The Eiffel Tower is an eyesore.
“Wow. I don’t mean to be insulting, but to me those are hideous,”
Of course they are. They don’t consist of columns, brick, and arches, and the rudimentary stuff most people that complain about architecture today think are required for a building to be “good”.
“The Eiffel Tower is an eyesore.”
Yeah, ok.
Some people on the right just strive to prove that the stereotypes are true.
What stereotype?
I’m going to be a contrarian and disagree. I think the current Mustang is the best looking Mustang since the 1969 model. I also think the current Corvette is a home run. It totally eclipses the last two body styles. The current Chevy trucks are a high point as well, with styling that’s at least as good as the fantastic looking late ‘70s and ‘80s models. The current BMWs look great, Audis look great, Range Rovers look great. Jeeps look amazing these days. I look around and see beautiful designs all the time. Which is pretty amazing given all the constraints the stylists have to work within.
I have noticed somethimg interesting. No one wants to drive a car that looks like a Model T, or fly in a biplane, or dress like it’s 1885. The same people will mock modern architectural design, and want to live in a house that mimics old architecture, and is filled with decor that copies motifs from hundreds of years ago.
Where’s that face palm meme when you need it!
Ok then that’s about it. Very reasonable, I think.
I think you're taking a condescending and elitist position. Which of course is your right. But it's a little surprising to see this kind of attitude expressed on FR.
What would Howard Roark think?
Not at all.
This is something I study, and have for years.
This topic is a perennial one, where the everything done after year X sucks” has been done to death, and consists of no argument that rises above cliches and a standard that would retard architectural advancement to the Georgian period or maybe something from mid-Victorian times.
The biggest problem is that people see architecture is a lineal thing. That Neo-Gothic came from Noe-Classical and that came from Baroque. That in the end, there was some nefarious plot by degenerate architects c. 1918 to abandon the “true” architecture for Art Deco, Bauhaus, Futurism, Brutalism, Post-Modernism, and so on. The reality is that all of these were different schools, that rose and fell, and that created great structures as well as complete trash. It simply isn’t an all or nothing.
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