re: PS: A big problem with canvas "art" today is that are too many illustrators posing as artists. )))
With art such a degraded commodity, illustrators would stand head and shoulders above most of those who "pose."
I'd classify even the good modern canvas-makers as decorators posing as artists. Their canvases are color charts for the parlors of the urbanites.
I can't argue with that technically but please explain Kincaid and Doolittle's incredible popularity.
There is as much wrong with that "appreciation" insofar as "Fine Art" as there is in Modern Art being lauded most of the time.
As I said...I have found exceptions to some modern art which is not garbage.