I was thinking about this while watching Nemo last night. I do think that some of the most amazing art is in animation, because animation allows the imagination to create some wonderful creatures (like Shrek) and equally stunning special effects.
I don't necessarily think the future will be in animated human movies, (but who can say). I think it might be a wide range of "abstract" animation, if you will.
I mean, what has been more exiting lately: the NYC exhibitions, like the Whitney Biennial, or the animated movies like Toy Story, Shrek, Finding Nemo, etc., etc.? I can't even think of a "great" artist who showed in the Whitney, but millions saw those movies, and (moreover) have them at home to watch again and again.
There is the animation of Shrek, Nemo, etc., and the exhibits in NY. If art is dead to a lot of people and doesn't really speak to them then maybe the museums are really mausoleums. Art has left the stream of life and has nothing to teach mankind. If art is a 'sleeping beauty' who is dead to the modern world we either need a Prince Charming to awake her or one of the seven dwarfs to put her to final rest -- a mercy killing! Perhaps Art terrorists (sponsored by an international league of curators) will destroy all art in the world as an act of euthanasia. There is greater dignity in dying a noble death than hanging forever on a wall. I mean the Mona Lisa probably feels like a tart who's smile is constantly being touched up, the David feels that anybody his age that has a great body like his is unnatural, the thinker can't even remember his last thought, let alone his name... yes, they have to go and are willing to go!