The fash aesthetic is historically inaccurate

[sabotabby]

 Via @symbioid: The White House wants new federal buildings built in the classical style.

Look, compared to concentration camps for tots and travel bans and attacks against queer and trans folks and all of it, really, this almost doesn't seem worth getting upset about except that I have a wee bit of an education in art history and know a thing or two about classical architecture.

And therefore I declare that if they do this, it is the solemn duty of all aesthetes, historians, and pedants to paint these new buildings in the classical style in the name of historical accuracy.

Comments

[dewline]

After reading your links...that sounds like a plan worth pursuing!

[sabotabby]

Make the Classics Painted Again.

[minoanmiss]

Amen.

[conuly]

YES

[mistersmearcase]

Every wall will have a copy of Badly Restored Jesus on it.

[franklanguage]

Why not?

[sabotabby]

If you're gonna go tacky, go full tacky.

[sabotabby]

Don't give them ideas!

[kore]

Oh Jesus I thought it was bad enough with them bringing the fucking TANK to just sit there during the goddamn Independence Day celebrations, which he renamed. Because he's a big baby and apparently they kept insisting that no, a parade of tanks would make the DC streets unusable.

[sabotabby]

He's never going to beat Kim Jon-un on aesthetic so he should stop trying before he embarrasses himself.

[belleweather]

As someone who works in New Embassy Compounds, bring it on. NECs are ugly and annoying. But I like Classical and Neo-classical architecture.

[sabotabby]

So do I, but if you're going to imitate the style, you gotta do it right.