art is literally meant to uplift you into the divine realm if only for a moment. it is meant to impart meaning and transcendence to this realm we call earth. that is why it is useless to make art ugly out of a rotten desire for "relatability" or "realness" and vital only to make the most beautiful, otherwordly art that is but a piece of the divine within all of us. i think the greatest art possible was created during the renaissance. such a lust for life, a fervent desire for living and adventure that fueled the age of discovery and provided a fertile seedbed for the age of empires and of colonialism. because i guarantee that in every man from henry the navigator to frederick the great lord kitchener there was an intimate knowledge of the greatness of our race and of europe that the art and architecture around them constantly reinforced. it is all political, because art by definition motivates men into action through remembrances of past action. these people kvetching about their replacement put themselves in the same league as vermeer, michelangelo, or cellini, but they are all ilya ehrenburg and the art they make is sordid and cheap, often grotesque and horrendous to gaze upon. none of the art they make is worth the paper they print it on or the data they share it with.
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