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nazi mentions
so i was chatting with my mum after having this chat about like... how bad people shouldn't be shown in a good light, mainly because napolium came up on TV as part of a discussion on there and i thought it was wrong to remember them for the good? anyway i brought up how hitler shouldn't be remembered for the fact that they got in power but should be remembered for the fact they murdered a ton of people
and after my mum says "well they did good art though"
i... don't know how to feel
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re: nazi mentions
@callmore This argument is so funny because it's literally an argument from people who haven't seen Hitler's art.
Hitler's paintings were awful. He had no sense of perspective. His use of watercolor was incredibly lackluster - a lot of dry heavily saturated brush strokes. Most of his paintings, self-admittedly, merely copied the technical aspect of Renaissance era painters. He had no sense of subject and mostly just painted still lives of scenes he thought were pretty.
This first painting usually makes the rounds whenever people try to claim Hitler could actually paint. Why is one of the windows completely flat and facing the camera and not against the wall? Why is another one intersecting with the stairs like it's a 3D model prefab clipping into another? Why is the door 12 feet tall? How on earth do those two roofs intersect? Is the light source coming from behind the viewer, as implied by the unseen house casting a shadow on the wall, or is it to the right of the viewing angle as implied by the leaves being lit by the trees? As soon as you try to look for the vanishing point you realize there's no vanishing point at all.
The popular story is that Hitler was "rejected from Art School", but in actuality the art school was looking for people who could paint portraits, which Hitler didn't want to do and wasn't good at anyway (see figure 2, where the baby Jesus's face is smeared to his left. One eye is bigger than the other!!) When they found he couldn't do figure drawing and preferred architectural work, the art school recommended he return to school to learn drafting and design - but that would require Hitler to go back to secondary school, which he had dropped out from (shocker!) and he didn't want to do that, so he just quit.
