It’s Time For The Right To Make Art Great (And Beautiful) Again

New York’s city recently unveiled a horrifying statue of a spaghetti-armed, horned female figure that was slathered with gaudy gold and placed atop its appellate courthouse. The apparent effort to one-up Boston’s new “Embrace” sculpture — which purports to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but resembles feces at best and a male appendage at worst — looks like what you might imagine if the Starbucks logo and Medusa had an unholy merger. The figure may be appropriately named. named in tribute to The fight against abortion is more demonish than feminine.

New statue placed atop New York City’s courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.” pic.twitter.com/4IFRj7hCsf

— Andrew Beck (@AndrewBeckUSA) January 25, 2023

Conservatives respond to public “art” Installations like this will complain about the discomfort of seeing such ugliness on streets and in parks. They might point out, as Nathan Stone did in these pages, that such rebellions against beauty reflect a cultural hatred for religion and humanity’s natural beauty. here). But one thing conservatives rarely do in response — for fiscal reasons or otherwise — is create alternative, better art.

Take the money Republicans spend on their favorite charities. political consultant Companies and redirect it to commission monuments, sculptures, or architecture that honors the things in our culture conservatives claim to defend? Imagine a beautiful installation of art that celebrates the family unit, the sanctity or femininity of men or women.

Can’t find a skilled artist who will accept such a job? You should offer more quality art programs in Christian and classical colleges. Even art with no political motivation, other than being beautiful and orderly, is in mission at a time when beauty and truth are being devalued by large portions of our culture.

Why not? Twitter user @PoliticalMath suggestedBuild. “classically inspired statues of Clarence Thomas” — a jurist far more worthy than the late Justice Ginsburg (who reportedly helped inspire New York’s new golden goblin)? Consider, for example, Phyllis Schlafly, Thomas Sowell, Whittaker chambers, or any Founding Fathers whose once unifying statues are being demolished by Lululemon-clad revolutionaries? Left-leaning cities can commission art installations that reflect deconstructionist values. Red localities have the option to install murals and statues celebrating traditional values in their communities.

It doesn’t have to stop at strictly decorative art, either; architecture has just as much capacity to reflect ugliness and beauty alike. Conservatives have complained for years about the sterile ugliness of modern government buildings. Just compare the Smithsonian Castle to the museum conglomerate’s more recent buildings, or compare the delightfully appointed 1845 Florida Capitol dome (complete with appropriately southern candy-cane awnings) to the phallic skyscraper that superseded it

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