Some answers for Brian Yoder at Art Renewal

It is a terrible "cage" they try to put around artists as they demand that nobody produce any art other than their kind, and all the while they proclaim that they have broken all barriers to creativity. Instead, they try to force us all into tiny pre-determined boxes where all we can do is choose between one brand of useless garbage and another.
Brian Yoder

Instead of having a sound discussion on art, refreshing, and prone of giving birth to new insights and ideas, the people at Art Renewal turn to the ‘argumentum ad hominem’ or mud-throwing and name-calling far too often, as Brian Yoder does here. Nobody in their right mind would demand that artist produce any art other than their kind, the only exception might be the chaps at Art Renewal themselves. Barriers to creativity have already been broken at the beginning of the 20th century. Barriers that were initially erected by the 19th century academic painters in their salons. The first cracks in the walls of the academy were the very institutes founded by the Impressionists: the Salon des Independents and, before that, the Salon des Refusees. After a few years these salons attracted far more visitors than the official salon of the academy.

Artists more than anyone ought to be thinking for themselves and using the best tools they can find to make the best art they can. Of course there are trends and fads, and not all of them are entirely bad either, but each artist (if he's worth his salt) should think for himself and make the best art he can, not be a member of some herd.
Brian Yoder

True. Is there anyone who thinks otherwise, exept for the people at the Art Renewal herd?

The deeper problem is that it (the modernist insistence on the abandonment of objectivity in art, GdL) has produced generations of "artists" who have no skills, no ideas, and can't make art. I wouldn't mind it so much if the result was excellent art that was only accessible to the most cultivated minds. Instead what we have is meaningless "art" that expresses nothing to anyone and only the pretentious few who know the latest trendy (and bogus) theories of "fashion" have any idea what is going on at all. The worst problem is that the lack of understanding of art has corrupted the ability of most artists and the institutions that train and support them to make or identify art at all, not that it has diminished their potential audiences.
Brian Yoder

I truly hope Yoder does not understand what he is saying when asserting that generations of artist have no skills, no ideas, and cannot make art. I hope these statements were made in a rage, or that Yoder is just plain stupid. I truly and wholeheartedly hope nobody ever gets infected by or even believes these hateful remarks against 20th century art and humanity. Acting in an way that few other people do is understandable and by all means tolerable, but verbally destroying others and their artistic judgements and beliefs should be prosecuted by law.
Furthermore, asserting that the early 20th century modernists insisted on the abandonment of objectivity in art is pure nonsense. In fact, if Yoder would have had the senses to actually read some of the articles by early modernists such as Bell or Fry, he would have understood that they were searching for objectivity.