Number 22 and 23 about promoting ugly art in public spaces has been a complete success for the communists. I can't remember the last time I saw a sculpture that wasn't some giant blob or old rusty car parts taped together in a public park.
You should look into some of the history of how the Soviets used to mind-fuck people using architecture. We're so used to just living in buildings, that we don't think of them as pieces of art anymore. And that was by design. There's an uplifting, inspiring nature to truly great structures which rivals the inspiration great pieces of artwork offer. But European social engineers in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union deliberately designed structures which made those near them feel small, insignificant, and powerless. After WWII, that all bled into the United States as well. For example: Look at the difference between the original Boston city hall (45 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts) and the current one (1 City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts). The new one looks like a cement shit box and feels like a prison. The old one speaks for itself. The necessity for a larger administrative building is clear, but the architectural philosophy shifts from one of greatness to one of oppression between the two. The style of the new one is actually called "Brutalist". The guy who designed the thing was a German-born Jew named Gerhard Michael Kallmann who escaped Germany in 1937, but I don't think I'm convinced that dude wasn't just as much a social constructivist prick as any Nazi...
Number 22 and 23 about promoting ugly art in public spaces has been a complete success for the communists. I can't remember the last time I saw a sculpture that wasn't some giant blob or old rusty car parts taped together in a public park.
You should look into some of the history of how the Soviets used to mind-fuck people using architecture. We're so used to just living in buildings, that we don't think of them as pieces of art anymore. And that was by design. There's an uplifting, inspiring nature to truly great structures which rivals the inspiration great pieces of artwork offer. But European social engineers in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union deliberately designed structures which made those near them feel small, insignificant, and powerless. After WWII, that all bled into the United States as well. For example: Look at the difference between the original Boston city hall (45 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts) and the current one (1 City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts). The new one looks like a cement shit box and feels like a prison. The old one speaks for itself. The necessity for a larger administrative building is clear, but the architectural philosophy shifts from one of greatness to one of oppression between the two. The style of the new one is actually called "Brutalist". The guy who designed the thing was a German-born Jew named Gerhard Michael Kallmann who escaped Germany in 1937, but I don't think I'm convinced that dude wasn't just as much a social constructivist prick as any Nazi...