The ‘decline of art’ was initiated by the left via compulsory art as a percentage of public contracts.
Anyone with half a brain needs only look with open eyes at the results of ‘art welfare’ here in the US...
(true artists are often lost in the fog)
If I could do it, it ain’t Art.
From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS #22-26
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”