/pol/ pretends to defend the Western tradition while having no familiarity with its founding texts and only seeming capable of appreciating the basest kitsch in its "art" threads (rather than posting the actual masters). There is a reason Hitler hated conservatives and reactionaries too -- to them he was a provincial idiot and they treated him as such (at least until he became powerful). I can sympathise with his anger at the gatekeeping of the upper classes, but you have to realise that he was not representative of "traditional German art", he was a total outsider and amateur.
Accepting Hitler would have been a symptom of the decline in artistic standards people cry about in these threads.
>>9243981>It is like this: the most admirable thing about the most admirable artist is the way they treat others. The perfect artist cares for their technique, certainly, but moreover they should be good to others and an advance for their society.Many of the greatest works in the Western canon have emerged from the expression of anti-social or iconoclastic impulses. With regard to art, sublimity in aesthetics trumps (but does not negate) moral vision. Verisimilitude over sentimentality.
>>9243990>go find 50 painters today who have that eye for detail, as accomplished professionals after years of training and practice, let alone people who are just out of high school and applying for college.There are hundreds of thousands if not millions. Hitler was a moderately impressive hobbyist painter but . There are thousands of cartoonists who are literally better illustrators than him -- for having mastered form, construction, rendering.
>>9243992You can tell from this pic that Egon Schiele is actually comfortable drawing human beings and skilled at anatomy. You can dislike his style but in terms of formal skill he is leagues ahead of Hitler.
