Comment by pyuser583

I don’t know if it’s that simple.

The Nazis and USSR had eerily similar art. There’s a thesis that “totalitarian art” is a genre, if not a species, of art.

Most dictators don’t like people thinking for themselves. A bunch of pain blotches on canvas can mean “Stalin is terrible” as “Stalin is great.”

The vague “what does it mean” style of art asks the question “what does it mean?” Which is not a question dictators like having asked.