There are many highly talented conservative artists but the mainstream art world is a socio-political group with their main criteria for acceptance being social-politics.
If they like an "artists" socio-political views, they declare the person an artist and sell his/her work to people with no sense of taste yet have more money than brains.
Most of the conservative artists I know create for the joy of making something good, not to Make a Statement. Mainstream art only wants statement-makers.
Then you get into the difference between the artist and the craftsman; art is nice, but craft is *practical* and nice and I know which one I’d rather create. :)