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You have used the word belie wrong, I think.

Belie means to HIDE the TRUE NATURE of something. Like: her smile belied her disdain.

The only thing that's "killing" art right now is over how readily accessible it is. Where before you needed to at least be able to afford a museum ticket, nowadays you can look up art from the comfort of your own home on the computer. It has effectively normalized art into a quirkier form of communication rather than it's once needlessly deified spot, and it still survives as a means of commission-based survival otherwise. Even through Emojis we see a form of corporate art proliferating in the form of communication, showing how we're more attached to images than ever before. 

I think having art become more normalized actually is improving the medium in spite of it no longer being treated as "high art". Rather than have it be in the hands of craftsmen it's moved into the hands of digital artists and weebs. Instead of having to look towards more "respected" names, you can see a much broader movement across people in the form of things like memetic mutations, lending it towards more of a Sociological foundation than ever before that can actually filter and gradually nudge a joke or narrative towards better outcomes. 

While you say it's dying, I'd argue we're going through another art renaissance, especially during the Lean movement. It's amazing how much art's available now, and the quality of it can be quite good as opposed to it just opening up novelty through a lack of gatekeeping practices. As opposed to art being something above us, art now is us thanks to sites like DeviantArt, Imgur, Reddit, 4chan, Instagram, Youtube, etc.

In the hands of the everyman on a service more readily available than usual, we are no longer deprived of the lesser known artist's crafts. 

Art is not dead, it has merely shed it's skin towards becoming something else. 

We're in a great age for art.

All signifieds and icons have been liquidated and deconstructed, in that sense I agree that the metaphysical age of art is dead. 

What characterizes contemporary art is that the artist essentially looks through these dead signifieds that are seemingly disconnected when comparing them to their constructions in olde narratives and makes them their own. The artist can take the signifieds and put them into within their own sense of inner logic and in doing so forming their own world with its own meaning and reasons. Contemporary art can be difficult for that reason, to understand you need to accept the logic of the inner world the artist has created. This is in direct opposition to metaphysical artist who uses icons and signifiers in an already constructed world with an established logic. 

QuietBeef said: 

 wtf I showed that to my friend yesterday