@artemirl@niu.moe
Social commentary is going to mostlikely contain ideological biases of the creator, but I have no clue how for example paintings of nature could be affected by the artist's ideology.
@setunai

@matrix @setunai @artemirl have you read on Berger's analysis of classical painting? Paintings of nature and paintings of the nude woman are two themes he takes up and relates to their historical situation, for example, nature as a vast and beautiful resource (the ideology of the nature/human dichotomy) and the female nude a sign of purity - to be solely an object of desire. You a always need to go further; *why* was the painting made? Why did the artist find it beautiful? Artists are not morons, they don't merely paint what's pleasing on the surface, they want to convey emotion. That's what aesthetics is all about researching.