>>185732
Thinking of art as only that pleasing to the eye is reductive.
Hrdlicka wants, in my appreciation, to express agony, apathy, quiet desperation. Art is a vehicle for emotions, nothing more and nothing less, while the superficial (color, styles, materials, medium, techniques) are only tools. The thing to judge is whether said tools were coordinated in a way that channeled emotion and to what extent.

My point is, Hrdlicka's stuff intentionally arises a certain heavinness in the spirit. Hitler's stuff doesn't do much for me, i can appreciate a good technique and composition, but that's as far as it goes. Think of the difference between reading a poem and reading a wikipedia article