When did Painting Art become so degenerate?

When did Painting Art become so degenerate?

drawing is just a series of scribbles, why is that any better than this?

Also CIA pushed for this type of art to combat marxism so blame them.

When paintings became money laundering vehicles. This involves the hagiography of every "artist" in the past 500 years or so.

Then the CIA poured billions into foundations and studios in order to promote "new exciting" art in comparison to soviet realism.

And desu, "art" as some divine category of human imagination is fucking useless in the face of the challenges we face. When boys are developing small breasts and when light exposure fucks up the timing of cellular repair functions...well what is the fucking point of "art" in a society of encroaching doom and gloom.

The people with actual talent work in media production or advertising.

>The people with actual talent work in media production or advertising.
t. James Smith, Concept Artist at EA Molvania

>the CIA poured billions into foundations and studios in order to promote "new exciting" art in comparison to soviet realism.
>billions
This is /x/-tier

The advent, development and popularization of the photograph c.1840-1860 is probably the best bullet-point on this. Since one can't compete with a photograph (and since photos were now readily available to be produced), art theory now devalued representation in the plastic arts, since representation was so easily and quickly had by other means. Instead, it began to reconsider things like meaning, interpretation, simple geometric patterns (a perennial favorite in human art), color, expression, and so on.

It was in the later part of the 19th century, with this new technology having been assimilated into the culture, that impressionism took hold, and from here on out it was a race to the bottom. If you're a person who hates modern art, the nadir was sometime around the 1970s, a sort of late-modern period when people like Ellsworth Kelly and pic related kept churning out their stuff, and while the art scene was still extremely stuffy about modernism. Eventually people remembered that it was perfectly all right to paint people, landscapes and so on, and as modernism gave way to post-modernism in culture circa the 1980s, things relaxed again. Now, you can find whatever sort of art you'd like to look at or listen to, and tune out the rest if that's your preferred approach.

It's not /x/ tier. The CIA literally funded people to promote Jackson Pollock. Billions might have been an exaggeration, for the CIA. But when you survey all the other NGOs and organizations that existed to produce propoganda, then billions might be an actual hit in the ballpark.

Remember, the deep state is literally nerdy college professors given power they never should've had. And the people chosen to head the CIA at inception viewed themselves as "cultured" and imbued with an aesthetic sense that could dominate the culture wars between Russia and the USA.

That's like saying spoken language is just a collection of sounds(or symbols representing them) so why would it be any better than gibberish

When objective standards of beauty were abandoned by Modernism.

>When objective standards of beauty
What were these standards and how were they measured?