The "art" that is celebrated these days is rarely beautiful, edifying, or Illuminating.
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Because, nowadays you see all idiotism combined, easily accessible by everyone on the internet. Back then, you would only see the highly paid or otherwise privileged artists.
It's a two way street today & probably better this way, because now you can actually grow popularity without needing a huge budget upfront from any monarchical treasuries.
This is probably more correct.
Possibly.
Its also possible that most art these days is an exercise is shallow cultural narcissism and is largely incapable of transcendence.
It's all relative, a matter of perception & transparency.
Now, I hope, you've heard of those ancient Roman graffiti on walls. This was shitty art. The only reason we are interested in it today, is due to historical reasons & that it's amazing those graffiti survived for so long.
Another case are poems during the 17th century. Of course, we know all the best quality stuff from famous poets, but in reality there were hundreds of poems written by some plebs who barely knew how to write.
For example, famous poets wrote in very beautiful ways about love, live & drama in general. It's overall very sophisticated & thought out.
At the same time, plebs were literally writing porn poems, describing sexual acts in pretty clear detail, for that time back then.
So, low quality stuff always existed.
It's just that nowadays, you actually see all that crap. But the "great" art still remains, it's just harder to see in those oceans of crap.
We still have those famous artists, but you additionally see all those other craptists, as well.
You are a big ball of self righteous momentum. Deciding what others think, what they mean, how others should see…
Tiresome narcissism.
Uninterested.