Did anyone notice that not only is kitsch in style now and consultants are openly telling rich collectors to buy it, the kitschier the better, but also art, even good art is being framed in the kitschiest possible style. If you don't believe me just look at the documentary, "The Price of Everything".

It reminds me a bit of the Rococo era, which was the end of the Baroque period where everything was over the top decorative, dripping in elaborate ornamentation and fanciful curves.
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That whole period was associated with the high life of wealthy Aristocracy, especially in France. Towards the end of Rococo, the French people had had enough, and the French Revolution toppled the monarchy and power of the aristocrats. And then, art did what art always does when there is a major social or political shift, it changed as well and left Rococo behind.

Maybe we are at the end of the high life of Industrial Magnates, who replaced the Aristocracy and it will take a social-political revolution to leave the kitschy art behind. The revolution seems to be happening albeit slowly and so far mostly thanks to social media...if FB doesn't limit us further.

I predict that art will once again return to acknowledging beauty and soul (after Rococo came Neo-classisim) once society becomes social-democratic, and the tyrannical Magnates and corrupt Industrials are forced to leave. It might only take bankrupting them and voting out the politicians that support them without a need of arms.

Make a new New Cultural Policy for the Arts that is called “Creative Canada”.
According to “The Walrus”, Jan. 30 2018, “Creative Canada promises nothing short of
an epochal “transformation in how we view culture and creativity.” The stakes are
indeed enormous: the resulting policy will influence how Canadians get our information,
determine the fate of the nation’s most important cultural institutions, and shape the
contours of the Canadian imagination for decades to come. What Minister Joly has
delivered, however, is a paean to Silicon Valley, a gift to American technology firms, and
a vision of Canadian culture as governed by web analytics and productivity tools.
Creative Canada is all media and no message, a cultural policy that reflects little of
Canada and none of our culture.”

In other words Creative Canada is turning artists into into tech entrepreneurs is a
triumph of Silicon Valley values, with all media and no substance!
There is no value in being an inspired, original artist any more except in the service of
the marketplace according to Creative Canada Plan.

Margaret Atwood's book, “ Handmaiden's Tale" prophesizes the future. That is the real
role of an artist. According to this new Creative Canada policy a book like that would be
of no value to their plan of being an innovative tech entrepreneur developing business
or technology. This plan is the death of art in Canada!
All that tax money you throw at these so called artists is going to a bunch of charlatans
who are sociopathic enough make it look like they are doing art while developing
communities and business and technology.

Art can inspire, beautify, make you aware of your sensual and spiritual nature, of the
meaning of life, but not become engineers or business tycoons. Art is needed in our life
to uplift us from the mundane, not wallow in it.

Van Gogh created such amazing beauty that scientists are now saying his brushstrokes
are an exact reflection of fractals in nature. Do you really think that if he had to develop
technology or do business he would have been able to paint energy and not just surface
nature? He did not sell anything in his life ergo he was also a bad business man,
Because you can’t do both, be a good artist and good business man at the same time, it
is like wanting the light on and off at the same time in a room. Impossible.
The Creative Canada Plan is killing culture in this country not enhancing it. It is only
enhancing commerce and capitalism.

History will be the judge of our art and art world and NOT the marketplace or how well
artists thrive in it! All artists can do is keep their integrity.
As an artist of many years I can tell you right now, that technology will not only NOT
save the world but push it further in the wrong direction, in the direction of robotic living
devoid of humanity and soul, of further exploitation of nature and the death of
compassion and humanity.
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History will be the judge of our art and art world and NOT the marketplace or how well
artists thrive in it! All artists can do is keep their integrity.