Fine art has become irrelevant as a consequence of the mass consumer society we live in. Once upon a time there was a class of people who were viewed as being a

Fine art has become irrelevant as a consequence of the mass consumer society we live in. Once upon a time there was a class of people who were viewed as being above everyone else in terms of artistic skill and taste. Whatever you want to call them, they were a result of a parallel elite social and economic group that was viewed as being above the others. They elected their group of painters, musicians, architects, etc. Modern society has shaped a world where the mass of people dictates what is interesting or not based on the money they pay for that product. So, the Beatles are viewed as important, not because their musical skills were better than thousands other musicians, but because they were consumed to a point of making a big difference in our society. In a mass society, there is a huge pressure to lower the quality of everything, because this means that more and more people will be able to enjoy it. That's why people are not creating the next 5th symphony, they're creating instead the next Justin Bieber song. In such a world, fine arts have no power because they are not able to move lots of people in the same way that a video game or the next Star Wars movie can.