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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (7 children)

The art on the album cover is a painting called Landscape With Graves by Caspar David Friedrich, a famous German painter who was beloved by Nazis.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Landscape_with_Graves,_c._1835-1837_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

You've probably seen this painting before by the same guy. I've seen a lot of twitter Nazis using this painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog#/media/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog.jpeg

The alternative album cover that he released was a Reichsadler, double-headed eagle crest.

Kanye held a concert on December 11 in Miami. He performed on stage in black-colored Klansman robe. There was at least a few right-wing grifters (Adin Ross, Sneako, etc) in the crowd.

He's announced that his new album is being released on this Friday. The pre-order is already on iTunes. I'm not sure if it actually will be release on Friday, he has a tendency to delay releases.

From what I have observed, Kanye is still being antisemitic. Baked Alaska posted a photo of them together on December 10. It is very likely that the album will be antisemitic and contain far-right messaging.

I'm worried that the album will be received positively by the hip hop community. If Kanye becomes popular again, it could normalize his cryptic love for Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

god damnit learning that fuckin mountaineering painting guy is beloved by nazis

edit: although he died a century before the nazis were even around so it seems okay to like him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Friedrich was a fantastic artist. It's not his fault the Nazi's broken ass clock approach to art was right once or twice.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If Kanye becomes popular again, it could normalize his cryptic love for Hitler.

this would track with the current efforts in the West to rehabilitate the Nazis in culture.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The West is currently trying to claim that everyone except nazis are antisemitic. Truly the Goebbelsian Big Lie of our era.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

As a former Kanye fanatic I'm very confident he isn't dropping a damn thing on Friday

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wanderer above the sea of fog is such a famous painting it's typically used as a literal textbook example of the romanticist movement. As in it is in children's textbooks. It's as much of a fascist dogwhistle as Michelangelos David is. Kanye is a fascist independent of this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Context, no? One, it’s not wanderer, it’s a different more obscure work, two, in an art textbook vs on a Hitler Fan’s album cover obv have distinct connotations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The accusation here is that the painting is one made by the same artist as one popular with nazis (Wanderer above the sea of fog). But that painting is just fucking popular. It's like THE painting for when you need to show Romantic art. The actual context is what I'm pointing out and why the point is silly.