I think you are being naive if you think all the contemporary artist in the world are just going to give up just because they realize they have no actual skill to begin with. As Robert and a few others have pointed out, its all about marketing and connections. Either join them or ignore them, bitching about them is just a waste of time.
I have an agenda, and producing equally as intelligent arguments for that agenda might be all the drive needed to spread these arguments to the currently undecided on what should or should not be art.
I do not think the “modern artists” will stop creating it. Never did I say they would. I said it is in the best interests of society to dispose of such mindless acceptance for said art.
My hope is that, if the intelligent arguments are spread, eventually it will suffocate society and reach the minds of those with wealth who buy said art. The intellectual part of the argument would in hopes be enough to change their perception as to what art in modern times should be perceived as symbolic of power. The result of such would be less profit for the contemporary artists and thus less people would make an effort to sell art in such ways.
As I already mentioned before, modern art results in large profits, because it is merely a symbol of one’s own personal wealth. Skyscrapers, those who work beneath you, the amount of money one holds, and other things all are forms of things that symbolize and enhance one’s own social and political power.
You might say, that modern art has merged as an entity present in both the factor market, and the normal market economy.
Many of these contemporary artists, lacked marketing ability. They have connections, yes, but that is all. Those with power, help these “fine artists” get to where they are, not the other way around. It is those who buy the art, that gives the artists the perception they have the marketing skill. However, many artists who I have met and spoken with, who create such art, lack most if not all of an understanding of the economic world.
Supply and demand, externalities, consumer behavior, consumer surplus, collusion(which is illegal I might add), Profit maximization, input costs and output prices, Marginal utility and benefits, outsourcing and insourcing, price leadership, the game theory, the invisible hand theory, free rider concept(which IMO could be easily included as a factor involved in ALL art, though usually associated with public goods), and much much more. These concepts and ideas are not present in the majority, if not all of these modern artists(probably not present in many cg artists for that matter).
Like I said, I do not expect people to stop creating modern art, it could last equally as long as any other claimed art. My argument is however on the perception of this art versus that of other art. If the perception changes, those high profits being made from their construction will be gone, and instead given to artwork that deserves the credit much more.
Those who paint art vividly on canvas, or on the computer is the art that should be making the high profits. Not those people who lack the craft to do so, even if that does sound harsh.
