It really is that simple, and it’s a foundational tenet of post-modernist art, recognizing and emphasizing the distinction between images and the reality they depict:
(Fun Fact; Fascists hate modernism and post-modernism for this reason. Their ideology idolizes certain images and aesthetics as being representative of a greater truth and seeks to reify them by forcing reality to align with their preconceptions. Acknowledging that what we see isn’t the nature of the thing being seen (or in the modernist sense, that there is more than one valid perspective on any subject) would mean admitting that the golden age of the past that they seek to return to is also just an image and not reality. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-styles/a2941-the-rejection-of-modern-art-as-a-form-of-fascism/ )
Fascists hate modernism and post-modernism for this reason.
They might not like the art, but with the post-truth blatancy fascism has definitely embraced a core aspect of post modernism lately. It’s not pretty nor clever.
It really is that simple, and it’s a foundational tenet of post-modernist art, recognizing and emphasizing the distinction between images and the reality they depict:
(Fun Fact; Fascists hate modernism and post-modernism for this reason. Their ideology idolizes certain images and aesthetics as being representative of a greater truth and seeks to reify them by forcing reality to align with their preconceptions. Acknowledging that what we see isn’t the nature of the thing being seen (or in the modernist sense, that there is more than one valid perspective on any subject) would mean admitting that the golden age of the past that they seek to return to is also just an image and not reality. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-styles/a2941-the-rejection-of-modern-art-as-a-form-of-fascism/ )
Also, I have tons of these:
those are some quality highbrow memes
I really needed the laugh, thank you for posting this! I adore René Magritte’s art, but I also really love people memeing on his art
They might not like the art, but with the post-truth blatancy fascism has definitely embraced a core aspect of post modernism lately. It’s not pretty nor clever.