Comments on: Conservative Art? http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Merry ArtToones http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Merry ArtToones Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:50:30 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-1958 Merry Arttoones is what conservative sculpture is now and in the future, ....talent execution, message, mastery of craft, integrity. Merry Arttoones is what conservative sculpture is now and in the future, ….talent execution, message, mastery of craft, integrity.

]]> By: Alvaro Alvillar http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 Alvaro Alvillar Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:02:26 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-1250 Alvaro Alvillar is what conservative art is now and in the future, both in talent, execution and message...political or otherwise: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aalvillar/2010/01/01/2009-the-year-the-pretense-died/ Alvaro Alvillar is what conservative art is now and in the future, both in talent, execution and message…political or otherwise:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aalvillar/2010/01/01/2009-the-year-the-pretense-died/

]]> By: erik http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-239 erik Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:43:45 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-239 on second thought, that was a short and rather pointless comment. to expand: there's a difference between political art and propaganda. i think it could easily be argued that all art is political, that making art is essentially a political act. making art and then saying it's not political is a political act. just because it's not a picture of GWB does not make a work apolitical. forcing art to conform to today's limited definition of political action is, well, limiting. to bring it back to goya, "saturn devouring his son" is a stunning piece of art. and i would say it is about war, and no, it's not a picture of a tank. on second thought, that was a short and rather pointless comment. to expand: there’s a difference between political art and propaganda. i think it could easily be argued that all art is political, that making art is essentially a political act. making art and then saying it’s not political is a political act. just because it’s not a picture of GWB does not make a work apolitical. forcing art to conform to today’s limited definition of political action is, well, limiting. to bring it back to goya, “saturn devouring his son” is a stunning piece of art. and i would say it is about war, and no, it’s not a picture of a tank.

]]> By: erik http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-238 erik Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:11:02 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-238 i don't think goya would appreciate being called a "weakling." i don’t think goya would appreciate being called a “weakling.”

]]> By: dan http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-229 dan Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:27:11 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-229 Contact the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, in Springfield, Illinois, to see their newest acquisition portrait of Pres. Lincoln, by artist D.F.Andre. Contact the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, in Springfield, Illinois, to see their newest acquisition portrait of Pres. Lincoln, by artist D.F.Andre.

]]> By: Kendrick http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Kendrick Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:49:36 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=2304#comment-220 Beware! Clement Greenberg was a conservative. Along with a number of Cold War elites who often were indirectly funded by CIA cultural initiatives through clandestine grant programs. Abstract expressionism itself was exported as a capitalist triumph in order to win over left leaning intellectuals who were becoming wary of the Soviet agenda. Beware! Clement Greenberg was a conservative. Along with a number of Cold War elites who often were indirectly funded by CIA cultural initiatives through clandestine grant programs. Abstract expressionism itself was exported as a capitalist triumph in order to win over left leaning intellectuals who were becoming wary of the Soviet agenda.

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