@matrix famously, not everybody being able to go to art school led to world war 2
@matrix Futurism/cubism like the stuff on the bottom was big in the 1910s and 20s, though
@why @matrix They could have went with Warhol, it would have been so easy
@mrsaturday @matrix it may have been an elaborate shitpost to detect people who have no fucking clue about art history but think they know everything about ww2

@matrix I think the turning point was the First World War, not the second. The First World War had a devastating and destabilizing effect on Europe in which the sense of continuity was broken and it left many western men, especially the post-war elite perplexed, pessimistic, disoriented, and disillusioned of their civilization. The Second World War only accelerated this trend.

@Proton

I think the better argument is simply that the art work selected for each period is cherry picked. That said, I do myself prefer older artwork than new when it comes to paintings.

@matrix

@matrix it may have taken time but at least good art started to appear again after ww2 instead of all the low skill abstractrash, the only downside is it took so many decades.

Pic very related.

@matrix there's still great art around! Honestly both options in this post look boring. I saw a cool video today about one artist who does really emotional and freaky stuff. That's what I like. Art that makes me scared.

Check out these two:
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duckduckgo.com/?q=zdzislaw+bek

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