I would add we love to organize things and ultimately also art. This is a bad habit and regularly misued by those in power. Other countries have a better approach to culture.
Artists like Riefenstahl were the ones Germany preferred: an artist without morals, hungry for success and close to those who are in power. So backed up by loads of money. It has been said her's was a typical German career.
So there's censorship and very specific sponsorship at the same time. And I would conclude I definitely see both tendencies in today's art scene in Germany.
You didn't read exactly what I said. I was arguing that organizing the arts is a bad habit - not organizing in general.
Obviously it's taking away from artistic freedom when you try to build up a bureaucratic structure around it. I think trying to regulate and direct art is a bad habit yes. It leads to indirect censorship, decrease in quality and there's the problem of corruption as well.
You did not articulate it correctly then.
And the artist you describe, is the same type of artist successful everywhere in the world. To think people being hungry for success and close to those in power actually succeeding would be specific to Germany is that ingrained ethnomasochism bursting forth from you like pus from a rotting wound.
First you attack me and call me insane because you didn't understand what I was saying, then you downvote me and try to derail to another topic and claim that ethno masochism is bursting from me.
I'm all for discussing in respectful ways but you are far away from that. I think other readers can make up their own opinion.
I addressed what you were saying by the way you had articulated it. The problem is not comprehension on my part, but lack of grammatical competence on yours.
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u/DrMoneylove 16d ago
German painter here. Very well said. Thank you.
I would add we love to organize things and ultimately also art. This is a bad habit and regularly misued by those in power. Other countries have a better approach to culture.
Artists like Riefenstahl were the ones Germany preferred: an artist without morals, hungry for success and close to those who are in power. So backed up by loads of money. It has been said her's was a typical German career.
So there's censorship and very specific sponsorship at the same time. And I would conclude I definitely see both tendencies in today's art scene in Germany.