Liberal vs conservative art

why are more artists seemingly liberal? where is the “conservative” art?

The realms that might have produced alternative forms of modernism failed to do so. Heightened secularism, the growing role of colleges and universities in training writers and artists, and the nationalizing and globalizing of the arts world have increasingly displaced the realms where artistic countercurrents might emerge.

Steven Mintz • How the Arts Shifted Leftward

Quantitative studies show that liberals are usually creative thinkers with low conscientiousness, high openness, and high neuroticism. Meanwhile, conservatives are linear thinkers with high conscientiousness and low openness and neuroticism.

Conservatives suck at art

While the liberal deconstructs, the rightist metaconstructs, building around, upon, and through what came before, using a particular legacy as a foundation for his own superstructure.

Librarian of Celaeno • All Great Art is Right Wing

Great art is everywhere and always rightist, not in a political sense, or an ideological sense, but temperamentally and philosophically. By this I mean that only art informed by Tradition has the ability to reach the status of greatness, first because it admits the possibility of excellence in the first place (quality being the opposite of... See more

Librarian of Celaeno • All Great Art is Right Wing

Conservatives don’t produce art anymore for the same reason typewriters aren’t used to produce scripts- they’re yesterday’s model.

All Great Art is Right Wing

The appeal of a set of standards that remove the basis of evaluating work from its quality to its adherence to a set of clearly defined political beliefs is obvious. If you can’t out-talent people, you can at least out-woke them.

Russ On The Road • The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It

So, you have a bunch of deeply insecure, neurotic people, trying to make their way in a profession where the rules are vague and the agreed upon standards of successful work are non-existent, and then you hand them a secular religion that gives them not only rules and standards, but a weapon with which to bludgeon their critics as -ists, phobes,... See more

Russ On The Road • The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It

This is something else I’d love to see a study on: common psychological illnesses in artists, but lacking such a study, I can only tell you what I’ve observed. Most people don’t choose a career in the arts because they’re very secure, contented and happy sorts. The level of personal psychological torment that’s driven them to such an irrational... See more

Russ On The Road • The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It

Being an artist is a luxury most people from economically disadvantaged environments just don’t think they can afford. You’re a lot more likely to choose it if you have a trust fund to fall back on. So, essentially you end up with a scene dominated by trust fund babies, no matter what identity group they align with.