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I mean I get it, I just don't like the commercialization and pretentiousness of a lot of it. Everything that we experience is art. From the vastness of the universe down to the smallest particles, all of existence is incredibly beautiful and mind-blowing. Your art as an expression of who you are is beautiful and valid, but saying "this incredibly financially successful 'art' that I'm having others crank out in my workshop is a statement on the absurdity of commercial art" isn't.
Banksy was super cool conceptually at first, it was basically a modern Western sand mandala. If you got a chance to see it and experience it then you were lucky but eventually it was going to be covered over. That's really cool and meaningful. Now there are thousands of framed Banksy pieces that rich people keep in their living rooms as shows and stores of wealth. That's meaningless, it's nothing. So much of modern art is J.K. Rowling coming in after the fact and saying "oh by the way Dumbledore is gay." The piece should speak for itself and so much modern art doesn't.
Edit: I thought about it a little bit and I was kind of hedging on the child thing, but that's pretty much how I actually feel. Expression of the artist's humanity is artistic but it's harder to actually accomplish, and a huge amount of popular modern art fails at that in my eyes.