I like photo real personally. I do not mean the CG look. Soft photo real. No, not everyone can do it. I think to much art moves in the direction of costume art. To me a lot of fine art hits a term I call "costume art". It is like costume jewelary but for you wall. Something that goes well with your carpet and couch. Something that you can change the colors to match your new coffee table. I have seen so many galleries where the artists are pushed to explore there abstract side. The artists cannot draw a realistic figure but it does not matter. They have a STYLE. Of course this does not include everyone because I have seen some awsome work. I do see some abstracts with class and are great. It is just I see to many artists work, especially when you go online, that say they went to Brown or some other BIG art school and they spent more on the education than I would like to imagine. I look at there work and say it sucks. OK they know color theory and they have an OK sense of negative space but anyone with those two calsses can through paint on a canvis and do it. They look like it would if you gave a child the correct color to finger paint with and took the project away from them at the right time. They are mass produced crap.

What do other think?