/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6694667
No, but the general consensus among the people that actually consume fine art is that artists should be free to offer critiques of society that may, in fact, make people angry, uncomfortable, and confused. This is opposed to most other professions, which for various societal reasons cannot do so.
This is also the function that fascists and communists both vehemently oppose, using the exact same arguments as you do. Of course, the real reason isn't to provide beautiful art for the people - even Soviet Realism remained a highly exclusive niche for rich people - but to silence dissent and stop art from being a vehicle for criticism of the regime.
This is also an issue even independently from abstraction or abstract expressivism in art. Picture related also offers social critique and was passionately polarizing at the 1819 paris salon. Abstract and modern art just has a higher concentration of people willing to critique society, and as such makes for an easy target to attack in order to send a message to artists to stop opposing the status quo.