Nothing is Free; Everything is Permitted
In modern society, people’s involvement with art is in form of an established system that is produced and reproduced by culture industry. Art as a socioeconomic value is subtly described hard to understand and participate and artist is who involve in greatness of arts. Contemporary arts are lacking the Burke’s sublime It is, in my opinion, mostly a medium for so called artist to show and promote his or her own individuality and subjective understanding of reality in a fancy way that has nothing to do with the psyche of aesthetic. Art is becoming much of a personal media of artist instead of representation of seeking beauty in physical or philosophical terms. For example, Pollock promotes a sense of recklessness in a world with massive wars; his personal understanding of world is valuable but not the art works. However, Vitruvian Man of Da Vinci bears its own value independent of the man who made it. Beside, art or being and artists includes a certain amount of privliage; it is true that barriers of participation to art is high but communicating that everybody is great and special and eventually reproducing the idea that real art is beyond human is a structural hypocrisy. Hence, performance arts went down from ballet or theatre to Marina Abramovic who does not perform but processes experience and creates participation to art. Moreover, established system crushes people just the right amount so that some of the artistic people use their capabilities to rebel and nothing more.
Regardless of individual effort art as we know it will cease to exist. Though reasons can create a remarkable list, they can be categorized in under three major titles; loss of aesthetics, loss of craft and economy of rewards in arts.
Loss of aesthetics is a necessary evil that post-modernism and liberal societies bring along. First and utmost cause of