Amen.
This same “Art Establishment” loathed Norman Rockwell, Arthur Friberg, and Maxfield Parrish for the same reason. OR they would smarmily “demote” them from “Artist” to “Illustrator”.
It is as if the person is no longer an Artist if the intent is to celebrate beauty.
RIP, Mr. Kincaid.
that has to be the mother of all ironies, and a really good reason to celebrate it all the more. But beauty is truth, and the truth might not look so pretty sometimes.