[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"We need to rediscover the foundational principles of great art when it was still in touch with life . . . commit ourselves to the search for styles, forms and subjects expressive of our own time . . ."

Perhaps degenerate art is expressive of our own times.

[kittymyrib]

I agree with you. Art is an expression of the soul. Most post-modernist people have an empty space where the soul used to be, so their art is naturally empty and completely trivial.

[tangerine]

It is expressive of our times. One has only to look at FR as an art form to see all the same, headline after headline, page after page, one statement after another when all taken as a whole. A different format, but the same.

Compare that to the journalism and discussion one might have heard in public 50 years ago - 200 years ago - 1000. And which the public or private sponsors may have felt honored to pay for too.