>>40583244
uh... yes they were, actually. But it's not artists that keep Civilization afloat, but they are useful to gauging the state of health of a civilization. The left-wing deconstructionist style didn't begin until much later, even impressionism and expressionism still retained much of the old outlook, but by 1900s and on, you start to see the ascendancy of the Leftist virus in civilization with such art styles as pic related.
the style of "relative truth", "multiple viewpoints and truths" that is characteristic of the rhizomatic leftwing hivemind ideology.

As opposed to the former Individualist, absolutist truth style of a Rembrandt or a Raphael (which strives for realism and skill)