Is there some kind of correlation between being a republic and producing great art? America over the past century, Florence and Venice during the renaissance, and Rome and Athens during classical antiquity.
>>1186614
Republics are run by the bourgeoisie who get all their power from making mad stacks so they can spend money on commissioning fine art.
>America
>Great Art
>>1186668
America has dominated music, film and television for decades. Whether their art is great or not is of course subjective, but they've been the most artistically influential nation for a few generations now.
>>1186689
>Whether their art is great or not is of course subjective
Yeah, but OP specifically said '' producing great art'' without any subjectivity behind it. If the question was 'influential art' maybe you'd have a point but you didn't so fuck off and stop trying to shift the goal posts to to fit your meme agenda.
>>1186614
Republics are usually a sign of a great and strong civilisation at it's peak, so naturally they will coincide with the greatest art. As the civilisation degenerates it will fall into despotism, and great art will fall with it. Republics do not cause great art, but they are correlated because Republics and great art are both symptoms of a higher civilisation.
>>1186689
>capeshit
>art
I'd argue that america actually fosters low quality art because it's fundamentally different in motive.
The religious artist no longer thinks "how can I honor the heavens with my art?" They think "how can I indoctrinate or otherwise convert the dumbest people in our population?".
The patrons no longer think "how can I show the glory of me, my city or my gods" they think "how can i sell toys, distract, and appeal to the lowest common denominator?".
I might sound arrogant and snobbish, but it's undeniable that the economy and intend behind art has had a shift. The people that are the target audience has also switched.
That said, a republic isn't much different from a democracy now, and I'm not sure america really produces more entertainment per capita than some european nations
>>1186908
Not really true
And it's not like plebeian pandering hit didn't exist in the past
>>1186689
>what is culture industry
America culturally dominated and destroyed the world through pure commercialism and globalisation. Nothing about american "culture" is of long lasting quality, which is why we jump between trends ever decade or even half a decade and forget or ridicule and look back with shame at anything that came before that.
American culture is anti-culture.
>>1187320
>being this mad we won the Culture Victory
>>1186614
>Is there some kind of correlation between being a republic and producing great art?
Nah, nah. The Roman Empire produced as much great art as the Republic, before the renaissance we had the Carolingian Renaissance, during the Ancien Regime it was the Kingdom of France that was the big boy of arts, post-Revolution it's a toss up between the French Kingdom/Republic/Empire/whosegovernmentisitanyway and the quadrillian German kingdoms.
Art has more to do with who has the most money to blow. Whether it's the bourgeois, the nobility, the king or the church only affects WHAT is depicted. The great masterpieces of the Renaissance were mostly religious in nature because the Church had phat stacks, for example. While art from the Revolutionary era was of course centered around promoting its ideals (hence why Oath of the Horatii was painted only a few years before the Revolution: it depicts its central idea, the idea that the Res Publica goes over personal interests).
>>1186689
>art
>>1186614
>t. american
>>1186614
>america
>art
Ayy lmao
>Republican Rome
>Art
That's even funnier than
>America
>Art
>>1188055
My pity goes out to the nigga who doesn't feel rock n roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkG9BKgDvNI
>>1186614
Imperial Rome was 10x more cultured and sophisticated than Republican Rome. No Republican work can compare to the Aeneid.
