“Hitler would have made it in art school, even with little or no talent, and he could have just splashed some sh!t on canvas and been called Avant Garde.”
Not quite, certainly not in that day and age. You still had to prove you could master the fundamentals to graduate from an art school. You had to learn the rules before you could break the rules, which is as it should be with art, except perhaps for those few rare genius savants who seem to grasp all the rules intuitively.
In that day, sure. But I thought we were talking about the present time.