Does Modernity Kill Art? | Nietzsche Roulette #11

Our modern society is a totally different place from the one that artists we still idolize lived in, so how does modernity affect today's artists?

Can atheists make good art or do artists need some relationship with divinity to create inspiring art?

When it feels like so much mainstream art is tepid and ugly, what is really the purpose of art today?

◬ Featured quote:

"125. Irreligiousity of Artists.

Homer is so much at home among his gods, and as a poet takes such pleasure in them, that he, at any rate, must have been profoundly unreligious.

With that with which popular belief presented him - a paltry, crude, and in part horrible superstition - he trafficked as freely as a sculptor with his clay, that is to say, with the same ease and impartiality as that possessed by Aeschylus and Aristophanes, and which in more recent times, distinguishes the great artists of the Renaissance, as it does Shakespeare and Goethe."

◬ In this episode:

⋗ How an artist's relationship to religion impacts their art
⋗ Denis Forkas: https://www.instagram.com/denisforkasofficial/
⋗ Is fine art over?
⋗ Art dies when people can't honestly criticize bad art
⋗ Salomé attacks her art enemy, Jeff Koons
⋗ Art conspiracy

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Human, All Too Human (https://amzn.to/3Rlxtni)

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