/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6569061
>Soviet art was all a rejection of the shit you bozos now parrot Jordan Peterson about calling Marxist lol.
Here is a picture of early Soviet art, inspired by the proletkult ideology. It is very much in line with what was stated earlier. Soviets were very much fine with "modern art" - in fact they strongly encouraged it - as a dialectical tool to attack the previous establishment, of which the French academic style was seen as exemplary.

The later state-sponsored socialist realism (More than 15 years after establishment of the Soviet Union) came into being once Soviets realized that they need pretty pictures for propaganda, and letting plebs engage in dialectics will just let them use them to question state power. It coincides with the change from a revolutionary movement into a stability-seeking power consolidating one. Any authoritarian regime, once they are in power, will do the same.

>>2501119
It's based on their own appearances and the appearance of their cultural mavens. Just look at how the demagogues of Tumblr's prevalent socio-political mores present themselves to see the answer.

>>2501120
Much like artists in the Russian avant-garde their worldview doesn't allow for the consideration of beauty and elegance in an objective sense as a good or worthwhile endeavour. They take surface elements of what they're aping and strip any conventional ideas of beauty (elegant lines, harmonious colours, etc) out of the equation because ugliness better fits their socio-political lens of the world. Compare their work to this Russian avant-garde piece circa 1930, it even has a prototypical Tumblr nose.