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Valerie,
You have summed up how I feel about this subject. Yet, sometimes I wonder how an artist among so many others is supposed to be unique and attract attention.
Maybe as a society we are to blame for the type of contemporary art that keeps popping up, leaving most of us to wonder exactly what makes the work worth the title.
Please realize that I do not agree with any sort of art that is distasteful or shocking. I have found though, that traditionalists love to stop others who want to push the envelope.
I like to use digitally created portraits as an example (not scanned in and touched up, but entirely created from scratch). It's safe to say that this is a non traditional-way of achieving a likeness and I will go as far as saying it is contemporary with the times. A portrait created entirely on Photoshop for example requires knowledge of tools, knowledge of anatomy and an artistic eye.
I have watched the movie "Final Fantasy" with my son and was blown away how realistic the figures looked and was saddened to see that the artists received so little recognition.
If we don't recognize tasteful new approaches to art and support those who want to experiment (after having learned the fundamentals, of course), we might not leave the new generation with new ways of being creative without having to resort to art we can't relate to.
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