With the exception of Knives Out 2, which used magic to dispose of the pandemic in the first act, nobody wants to relive some of the worst shit that happened!
Do you think these artists from the interwar period were trying to relive the great war, or were they simply trying to deal with the scars it left on society in their work?
As artists are apt to do.
the term *interwar* seems to be your answer here. they were processing the trauma inflicted on their generation after WWI, no?
that's a timescale of decades after the fact for that trauma processing, this guy seems to be demanding concurrent creation.
Putting aside for a moment how much work on the subject was done during the war let's hit the nail on the head.
The famous painting was done in response to the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
screenshot in OP is taking about mass media productions, which take months or years to make.
if you want examples of random but fairly influential people making things in 2020, those exist. I'm fond of the FoldingIdeas video about Pandemic, really captures how awful I felt.
You got me there.
I personally was a fan of Julie Nolke's series Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self which she made through the event itself.
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It's not reliving it to acknowledge the reason many people don't want to sit in a dangerous movie theater, or a crowded concert is the ongoing pandemic. And the lack of it in art and culture is why you think it's "insane" to even mention it.
Hush, taboo, wouldn't want to spook the customer.
This part.
Yes, artists are not required to traumatize themselves! But also, it's WEIRD AF that so many shows and movies just...didn't acknowledge its existence at all. TV isn't reality, but it usually at least *tries* to pretend it happens in our world (unless outright fantasy/SF).
