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.
It is supposedly against the law for American governments to fund or even freely accept art like this:
Instead, our taxes are used to pay for "Piss Christ" and works resembling this:
I am offended that the "art" I helped pay for was destroyed! /s