My wife is an artist who strives to present the "true and the beautiful". She has won some awards and gets into several local and national-level retail art shows every year. In the internal show judging, however, when prizes are awarded, they almost always go to the frightening, the horrific, and the gratuitously painful work. As one judge said in public: "It was scary. I liked it."
The problem with working from the bottom up is the incestuousness of the arts. The liberals have taken them over at all levels, and they will not relinquish their hold easily.
I agree with the author that much of Conservative art is "bland" or just plain poorly executed, serving up message or image over quality of workmanship. The problem is, much of the liberal art is the same, only the message is more readily accepted. Like the downtrodden minorities of the past, we have to be twice as good to get half the recognition. In the end, it will make Conservative artists better, but they have to recognize that one tenet: Strive for excellence in presentation. Don't give the judges or audiences any reason to disregard you because of quality.
And I might add, yet again....Don't compromise!
I gave up and started my own company. Do some web surfing and check out the prices for printing postcards and greeting cards. They're minimal. And it's possible to do very limited runs. Create your own website, go to a local trade show, and voila! You're in business.
You can trust the people's natural sense of beauty.
Thanks for your reply. However, there is a problem in your essential point excerpted above. The standard of what is "good" is not the same now. The leftist revolution has supplanted the classical good true and beautiful as that which is estimable. In your analogy, if minorities were as good or so much better, then the idea was that this would allow them to be recognized. However, in the present situation, the "conservatives" are the group who are disadvantaged, but if those who are judging or recognizing use a non-classical standard, then there is no way to achieve recognition. Recognition itself is problematical. But I got to run right now.