[mas cerveza por favor]

The idea that the right to both define what is art and who is an artist belongs only to artists is a recent historical development, occasioned by the collapse of objective standards of value long championed by Progressive ideologues.

That "right" does not extend to artists who defy political correctness. The supposed new standards are a employed solely for the attack upon traditional Western values.

[andy58-in-nh]

That "right" does not extend to artists who defy political correctness. The supposed new standards are a employed solely for the attack upon traditional Western values

So, what the culturati do is to deny the status of "artist" to anyone who refuses to pimp for the Progressive Goddess or otherwise make their work serve political ends. Those who insist on creating media whose explicit qualities reflect upon reality or essential truth - are treated as heretics or worse- no matter how beautiful their use of form, imagery, color, light or texture. To the contrary: their preference is for the ugly and the obscene, the dissonant and the discordant, offered not as a celebration of Man, but as an affront to the reasoning mind that God gave him.