5. Anything and everything is art to the right audience.

Anything and everything is art to the right audience.

The boundaries of aesthetic value and artistic appreciation are always being pushed by artists willing to put their reputations on the line in hopes of their new styles being accepted by the masses.

Joseph Ducreux, a french Potrait painter pushed boundaries in the 17th century by painting extrodinairy portraits of himself and other willing subjects doing a variety of things from smiling broadly to yawning and greeting the viewer, all vastly different to portraits of the error where a slight smile was just coming into fashion. 

Ducreux's work and skill gained him moderate acclaim in his time, even being commissioned to paint a portrait of Marie Antoinette, was dwarfed by his recent rise to popularity in recent years. His work has spread as an internet Meme recently in a generation where his skill and the interesting candor of his work could be truly appreciated.

The various veins of digital art are pushing the boundaries as artists of the past, like Ducreux. Artists are taking steps in more and more imaginative fields of science fiction and fantasy while pushing traditional categories.