What makes orthodox art and aesthetics superior to catholic ones?

Poverty, wife beatings, and crime.

>>17860263 (OP)
They've isolated from the globohomo. Orthodox aesthetics are unknown in the west and when the communists took over Eastern Europe they wanted nothing to do with religion so they left it alone. That's why it's remained pure to this day.

Which is exactly why I fucking hate orthobros, they're pozzing Orthodox aesthetics.

>>17860283
>The Communists left Orthodoxy alone.

You are painfully historically illiterate. Look up what percentage of Orthodox Churches that existed at the beginning of the Soviet Union still existed at the end. Not to mention the fact that the government of the Soviet Union took over leadership of the Church in all but name. I know the USSR wasn't all of Communist Eastern Europe but still.

>>17860302
>Look up what percentage of Orthodox Churches that existed at the beginning of the Soviet Union still existed at the end.
I'm talking about the aesthetics, not church property. They didn't adopt Orthodox aesthetics into their propaganda.

>>17860263 (OP)
Being (intellectually) primitive. The West has undergone many changes that an Orthodox would argue are rational but profane, such as categorizing theology as a sub-field of philosophy. Another such change was in art, where the West has over-emphasized one key technical element: perspective.

Artwork was no longer about showing meaning and revealing hidden reality, but about a canvas being a 2D obstacle between a static viewer and material reality that's optically projected onto it. Instead of contemplating the symbols that an event utilizes, you got to admire technical proficiency with which the symbols were drawn. It's a massive step backwards from Truth-as-revealing towards Truth-as-technical-correctness. Like most novelties, it is seen as "progress" and it was sort of implied that the Egyptians, Greeks and others (who built very sophisticated buildings with their geometric knowledge) simply didn't have a solid enough grasp on geometry to show a scene as a static projection... this premise still goes mostly unchallenged today so Orthodox art seems refreshing because it breaks from this dogma.

>>17860263 (OP)
Russian state-sponsored social media influence

>>17860263 (OP)
Because catholics see christianity as a science while the orthodox see it as mysticism and spirituality.

>>17860263 (OP)
Orthodox icons are the ugliest things I've ever seen.

>>17860263 (OP)
they have a soul

>>17860263 (OP) You call this superior?