Art?

[Beanz]

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

[Beanz]

John Minton

Street and Railway bridge 1946

[Beanz]

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

[Beanz]

but have heard it a myriad times in this format

[El Kabong]

but have heard it a myriad times in this format

Wagner was anti-semetic & the Nazis used his music in the concentration camps, so in Israel his music is not welcomed. And considering his Bridal March & what thoughts that conjures to most who are not aware of what his music inspired that is very odd. To some his music means love, hope, togetherness and to others it means hate, death, torture.

[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.

[Kirkland Laing]

None of these cunts can produce art on as grand and epic scale as myself. None of their art is as highly sought after as mine is. My installation art kicks the shit out of anything any of these fuckers has ever done.

[Beanz]

another Peter Blake with which most of us are familiar