During the renaissance most of the art was paid for by "the church" or wealthy religious patrons which is why (as any art student knows) that we see mostly biblical work from that time period. Today most of the artwork the general public sees is paid for by large corporations and media conglomerates. This is what we call pop culture. There are lots of artists out there making great art but only a small fraction of that reaches the general public at large. I've often wondered if there were other types of art during the renaissance that just didn't survive because they were not deemed worthy of a public audience by the governing powers.
Maybe there was some genius years ahead of his time experimenting with abstraction or surrealism but the work was never validated, never recorded and destroyed because his work didn't represent the values of the Church.
In two or three hundred years from now will art historians be calling us the era of corporate censorship.
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