It was actually terrifically beautiful

I think of the usual blocky stuff when I think of soviet propaganda. I didn't know they had a realist style.

@metasophocles wasn't there a thing about JBP owning this art in some photo shoot?

Let me try an find an example

@PatrickAZ I am not sure

frieze.com/article/whos-real-ideologue-jordan-petersons-communist-art-collection @metasophocles

This is an example that comes to mind

how pleasant

JBP, for all his flaws, does wink just enough to entice the person already looking that direction.

Indeed he has alot to offer a mind that has nuance

@metasophocles who paint?

I did make the mistake of seeing him speak.

@metasophocles Sadly the art was more state mandated to achieve the illusion of the USSR being a Utopia to outsiders... On the inside, however it was of course a different story.

I think the creator is the name on the jpg line

Well I am certainly not marxist, but art as a tool of inspiration to the ideal is not necessarily a bad model @The Eternal Anglo

it's not

the guy is a composer

Sheeeeit I just pulled that image from le googel

oh wait no

more than one Vasily Petrovich who are Russian and in the arts

go figure!

Meh, mid 50s on they really went Russian nationalist in opposition to early leninist ideology

Look what the west did to western Evrope

Like I said I am definitely not a marxist, but I can see the benefits of other thought systems

I'll be honest, his stuff doesn't blow me away. I like impressionism and he's clearly inspired by it despite not being part of it

doesn't speak to me, personally.

@metasophocles bruh, you can like cultural nuggets without agreeing with the society's ultimate position or ideology.

Both the soviet anthem and "brave nasheed" are absolute bangers.

There are painters and particularly certain sculptors, unfortunately associated with failed regimes of the early 20th century that I admire deeply but thats not a conversation for gentlemanly IE discord

Am I a supporter of communism (or isis)? Hell no

This is a painter that I am really into

an American contemporary painter who reminds me of a Rockwell that is not staged or forcing social statements (for good or ill) into his work

Mom and children paintings are 👌🏻

Fabulous, I am often dissapointed in the lack of contemporaries expressing Americana, we can't only love the 40s and 50s like rockwell

David Graeme Baker. Born in South Africa, but grew up in PA.

Was saddened to learn that his works are going for tens of thousands of dollars now.