Art?

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ENGLISH PAINTERS

Wyndham Lewis great painting of the poet and eccentric Edith Sitwell

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Another by Wyndham Lewis

Battery Shelled

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Another war painting this time from the first world war by Ambulance driver Christopher Nevinson "La Mitrailleuse"

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John Minton

Street and Railway bridge 1946

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Peter Blake "Self Portrait with badges"

[El Kabong]

I've been watching a documentary called 'The Architecture of Doom' about how art & artists(mainly failed ones) shaped the Nazi party & Nazi Germany. Hitler being a art school reject, Goebbles having been an author, and some other high ranking Nazi's were also fond of poetry, art, architecture, opera, etc. It is very interesting yet horrifying what those people accomplished using flowery rhetoric & propaganda. They used abstract & avant-garde art to degrade and dehumanize Jews, Gypsies, the mentally ill, Bolsheviks/Socialists, and anyone who did not believe in a "pure Germany". They used film, they used music, they used anything and everything to mold the minds of their public. With the attention to detail those guys paid to what they were going to build in Berlin and Linz no wonder they lost the war. I had no idea guys like Wagner played so big a role in inspiring such an awful person as Hitler.

[Beanz]

I've been watching a documentary called 'The Architecture of Doom' about how art & artists(mainly failed ones) shaped the Nazi party & Nazi Germany. Hitler being a art school reject, Goebbles having been an author, and some other high ranking Nazi's were also fond of poetry, art, architecture, opera, etc. It is very interesting yet horrifying what those people accomplished using flowery rhetoric & propaganda. They used abstract & avant-garde art to degrade and dehumanize Jews, Gypsies, the mentally ill, Bolsheviks/Socialists, and anyone who did not believe in a "pure Germany". They used film, they used music, they used anything and everything to mold the minds of their public. With the attention to detail those guys paid to what they were going to build in Berlin and Linz no wonder they lost the war. I had no idea guys like Wagner played so big a role in inspiring such an awful person as Hitler.

It is interesting how much art even when used as propaganda can be reinterpreted over time too. Russian artists often suffered working in silence unless they worked for the state but much of what was highly politicised communist rhetoric has now been adopted by western advertising agencies in creating capitalist advertisements.

[Beanz]

Fuck it when is there going to be another chance to introduce Wagner into the proceedings.

Many people are not familiar with this piece from Wagner's Lohengrin

[Kirkland Laing]

I think comparing Ahmadinejad to Obama like this is quite offensive to Mahmoud, peace be upon him. Mahmoud isn't the one who's bombed eight other countries in the past few years and at least Ahmadinejad doesn't try and hide the fact that he's a Muslim.