"Whereas
earlier traditions of artistic creation embraced symmetry within
complexity, modernism has embraced extreme simplicity, dislocation, and
imbalance. Whereas earlier traditions sought to bring pleasure to an
audience ... modern art attempts to “nauseate” or “brutalize” an audience....
Whereas pre-modern architecture employed scale and ornament, modern
architecture aggressively promotes gigantisms and barrenness."
Their call to arms concludes:
"the first duty for every true artist at this moment of history is an act of spiritual fidelity to the timeless traditions of art-making, and an uncompromising, unmitigated hatred towards the dictatorship of modernism. Every true artist should come to his work now with something of the spirit of a liberator fighting an entrenched tyranny."
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