Has modern art lost its power when artists are compelled to cater to political standards for the sake of inclusion? Creativity and imagination are the catalysts of an artist’s work, making art highly individual and subjective. The interpretation of art is subjective as well.

However, art in 2023 is becoming constricted by woke inclusion standards. It has gone from encouraging talented minds to create whatever they feel to catering to specific groups and producing whatever the elites think is acceptable. Art used to be inclusive because it included every vision, idea, and creative thought. The only way to make it exclusive is to instill parameters that put art in a box and stifle diversity.

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