Some pictures expertly adapt to urban environments, often by changing their behavior. Cynicism is perfect for socially acceptable art, a clear conscience being the sign of a bad memory.
The Parrhesiastes is the person who says everything, fighting weighty art, one pixel at a time.
“The real truths are those that can be invented”
Mickael Bishop, Nobel prize lecture (1989)
The world doesn't need reality but fantasy. Humor is commonly regarded as an indicator of intelligence and creativity, which are desirable characteristics. That was a time when words were like magic.
Cynicism postmodernity, once a crook always one. It's a little late in the game to worry about anticorruption measures because what in the world is the alternative going to be? If you find people who aren't corrupt it is largely because they haven't had the opportunity.
Subversive outsider art as a wild-idea factory is not art made by those who are maybe just a bit eccentric.
Benign humor transforms a finite surface into an infinite horizon. Life is a big conundrum, fringe thinking helps. At a basic level, feeling in danger or under stress are the same to the brain. We would still be missing all the other subtle ingredients, the magic dust, that makes a particular person attractive to another.
Showing pictures as we may have wished them to have been, rather than as they actually are. Undergroubd art conceived of as symbolic portals to another realm, featuring hybrid woman-plant beings, who hold powerful knowledge of herbal medicine. A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.
Art serves no purpose. Artspeak serves mainly as ammunition for those who still insist contemporary art is a fraud. Forget cynicism in art, stay focused on humor. No matter what one does in life, it is guaranteed to be wrong in someone's eyes. A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences, we have enough reality today. It would suddenly come alive and weirdness people wanted to happen could happen.