Entartete Kunst

>Why do people like this
>objectively shit
Hmmm, really fires my neurons

>>2540698
>hypocritical standards
What does that even mean?

Show me on the doll where the art curator touched you.

I dunno it's kind of interesting to look at least. Definitely better than contemporary art which is sjws using a can opener to open up a pack of sardines while screaming about imperialism and racism.

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>>2540713

>>2540698
Get some historical context, like the rise of psychology in the beginning of the 20th century and the cultural impact of WW1

>>2540809
>>2540698
people felt betrayed by their old ideals.

Fatherland? Led them into bloodshed.
Religion? Didnt keep your comrades from being gassed and ripped up on the battlefield by machine gun fire.

but that's only one dimension of the zeitgeist though. People thought the ending was near, economy broke apart, warfare of mass annihilation became a norm, the fight of ideologies was rising.

anything else aside from the jagged, unclean and horrifying style of expressionism would have been an unfitting representation of how people felt. Naturalism depicts ideals, but those basicly turned out to be rotten to the core when faced with the new reality.
The expressionist art conveys something like a scream of despair, the artist want to get rid of those old ideals and wants newer, purer forms of humanity. Turning towards making art like the classic was like turning a blind eye, thus it lost actuality.

think about the aesthetic what you want, but that what was considered entartete Kunst is interesting because it gives an insight on how it felt to live in this time and situation. I think that it also manages to combine both uglyness and beauty in the same image through shapes and colors. What many /pol/tards forget is that art of all kind has more value to it then the mere degree of naturalism

What i said about the negative impressions that were worked into the style can be said about other motives of the art. Human psychology was in the focus, and unsurprisingly, human psychology was just as messy of a matter as the art itself. Society, morals, etc. were filled with rotten norms and ideals which found their expression in these paintings and sculptures.

>why didnt they then just paint the same themes in naturalistic? It'd have been possible.
The visual style is also part of the message. Working with a merely naturalistic approach would not be able to convey the same kind of feeling, and it would be hellishly inefficent on top of being ineffective.