Stephen K. Bannon, who maintains a precarious hold over the nativist wing of the Trump White House, honed his skills in the art of conservative persuasion in the most liberal precinct of the American imagination, Hollywood.
Knowledgeable about art but conservative in his preferences, Degas's father helped to develop his son's interest in painting and in 1855 encouraged him to register at the École des Beaux-Arts under the supervision of Louis Lamothe, a minor follower of J.-A.-D.
In this way, he continued an argument with the public that had begun with Graham Sutherland, whose picture of the ruined glory of Winston Churchill – subsequently destroyed by the scandalised family – became a symbol of the campaign by art's conservative forces to equate likeness with likability.
Charcot's tastes in art were conservative; he displayed no affinity for the avant-gardes of his time, including impressionism, or for contemporary musicians, such as César Franck or Hector Berlioz.
(It is true that what that would mean now, in financial terms, is becoming less clear – despite their one stated policy of re-routing lottery money back to the arts, any Conservative budget would be fantastically tough on public spending).
By Hua Hsu October 12, 2016 "#DaddyWillSaveUs," a pro-Donald Trump exhibit billed as "the first conservative art show" in America, was like a parody of bad art.
The art world is conservative.
His concepts of form and unity in art were very conservative.
Ballet is a naturally conservative art that desperately needs new life just now.
When the show reached Chicago, Brancusi was burned in effigy by conservative art students.
