>>9343681Musician here. I write orchestral music.
Beauty is political. And it's on our side.
We need an art war. A movement called something like "New Greatness" or whatever. An adoption of traditional technique, infused with new ones. A string quartet set to a well-sculptured electronic rhythm, or things like that.
The goal of this movement should be to renormalise beauty, greatness and a transcendental 'upwards-looking' view of the world.
A revolt against this mundane, boring view that art should be about trivial, human things, or that it should carry a message of 'equality' or be inclusive or whatever.
Art should be something to bask in the glory of. And in the case one is supposed to recognise oneself in art, one should see the best of oneself - Greatness, not weakness. Hope, not mundane worries. A vision of glory. A rejection of the concept of 'kitch' and a united front in the defense of the picturesque and sublime, against the tide of ugliness and smallness.