Recently a right-wing visual artist was looking for a right-wing discussion forum for aesthetics. Initially I thought I might just make a forum myself, but now that I ponder the question, I don't know that I am right-wing enough to moderate a right-wing aesthetics forum. I fear this will be a lengthy, meandering bloviation, so be warned that I will wax verbose.
I don't believe in left-wing and right-wing distinctions. I, for example, believe in workers' rights. I believe the hard-working Johnny Sixpack ought to get a decent wage and strike if the greedy Land-owners try to stiff him. I believe in Father Coughlin. That ought to make me a left-winger -- and perhaps it would have made me a left-winger, a hundred years ago. But nowadays, when I quote Father Coughlin, people call me a right-wing Nazi. (This makes it very awkward for me to share banjo music with acquaintances; people who are willing to listen to American folk music often adore Woody Guthrie, which makes it very tempting for me to explain how Woody Guthrie was a midwit Commie stooge who literally could not focus enough brain power to read The Grapes of Wrath -- Guthrie had to watch the movie version.) And Woody Guthrie sneered at Father Coughlin, so I sneer at Woody Guthrie.
What could be more right-wing than a chivalrous willingness to die for a noble cause? The men who choose to die in battle, knowing full well that their valor will NOT be nobly requited, seem to me to be right-wing. Byron wrote:
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knock’d on the head for his labours.
To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan,
And, is always as nobly requited;
Then battle for freedom wherever you can,
And, if not shot or hang’d, you’ll get knighted.
Was Bryon right-wing? Should right-wing people hold up Byron's art to symbolize right-wing values? I like a lot of old-fashioned art, and when I talk about it, I get called a right-winger. But the people who made that art did not see themselves as "right" or "left." Sodomy, for example, is beloved by the left wing. Was Lord Byron a right-winger -- or a left-winger -- or nether -- when he committed sodomy? Does Byron's indulgence in a left-wing vice disqualify him as a right-wing idol?
The band MGMT appears to be composed of conventional mainstream leftists. Their original music video has high production values and appropriates some beautiful bits of European heritage, apparently to complain about how the world is not left-wing enough for their taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtL5oMyBHPs
However, the pretty melody of the song does not only appeal to left-wingers. Many right-wing folks who post frog memes on 8kun use it to symbolize their adherence to right-wing politics. E.g.: Some fancier of European history made the following remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Edw8GtiEo
Some Rome-fancier made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Xpzwve-Ro
Or again, I believe Ubisoft to be staffed by conventional left-wing midwits. I think those midwits hate anything that looks "right-wing" to them -- so they would probably hate me, if they ever noticed me, which they won't. They made Far Cry 5 to mock the right wing with their notion of "irony":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_3_-UrhZH0&pp=ygUca2VlcCB5b3VyIHJpZmxlIGJ5IHlvdXIgc2lkZQ%3D%3D
and the politically engaged right wingers said, "Yes, we like this UNIRONICALLY. You can culturally appropriate Americana and Christian choir style, but we will appropriate it right back!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Uo0OUqDMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6VSVGedTTA
Some art seems to be inherently left-wing. Jackson Pollack, for example, seems to lack any kind of merit. As far as I understand, Pollack was essentially a left-wing gigolo who had to seduce wealthy women so that they could provide money for his painting projects.
Some left-wing critics are terrified of heroic male nudes, such as:
http://midi.moe/f/jmkn.jpeg
which I found at:
https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/the-male-nude-in-art
And of course, I can't post this without noting that the actual historical Nazis were led by Hitler, who was famously a painter. I am vaguely aware that Hitler arranged art shows to contrast canonical art with non-canonical decadent art, but I am not a Wehraboo, so I don't have deeply held opinions about whether Hitler's ideas made any meaningful contributions to the scholarly study of art and aesthetics.
http://midi.moe/f/pspfd.jpg
That's more than enough rambling from me. If saidit users care about aesthetics, somebody should make at least one aesthetics-focused subgroup. It might be practical to start with just one general-purpose group for all types of art -- visual, musical, architectural, etc. -- and if there is a lot of traffic, specialty groups can always be made later.
there doesn't seem to be anything here