/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I think most artists are probably very apolitical and just go with the flow. The left is good at framing themselves as compassionate, and people of opposing views as mean spirited, so lazy non-thinking artists are maybe prone to falling into their dogma. Highly successful artist-entrepreneurs might lean more right, or at least more libertarian, and we are seeing more and more of this type of person representing the artists of our time. At the same time, the "right" seems to flirt more and more with libertarian ideals and less with the religious fundamentalism they were associated with so heavily previously, and which probably didn't mesh well with artists. But there has been a bit of a switch where it is now the left that feels more socially authoritarian, in addition to their usual economic and bureaucratic/regulatory authoritarianism. The loud and obnoxious figures of the left who dominate social media and call for government oversight and authority seem opposed to the free spirit of the artist, in my mind.