Last time I asked the question if our general well-being and over-saturation in Europe and other rich parts of the world is creating more and more uninteresting art. The reaction of my readers was more or less: “well off? Me? I’m suffering for my art, I’m poor, I’m ignored, why should I be decadent!”. Others pointed at other (non-European) cultures and expressed hope that new impulses may come from truly understanding them (I agree wholeheartedly, but I just wish we had the guts to create change from within our own culture, or that encounter will be too onesided).
Biographies of artists were compared with respective own biographies, and there seemed to be a competition to prove that certain artists were not personally suffering and still creating great art.