[bazeblackwood]

While I agree that art has become more static since the dawn of the internet, the same can definitely be said about music, particularly pop music, which hasn't advanced significantly since the 2000s. However in various corners, sampling and synthesis have advanced by leaps and strides over the past decade. Also if you're just limiting visual art to painting, I think you're skipping over an entire era of installation-based and generative art (not necessarily machine learning-based) that has only recently flourished. And just to touch on your first point, "pop art" has been a term since the 50s. It overlaps pretty significantly with the visual style of comic books, which are most prominent in animated features and video games today. Corporate art similarly has its own style (think those flat diverse figures with bright colors). I'm not even sure how one would start to compare the relative "popularity" of these two domains, let alone determine that "music" is more popular than "art".

[cubefox]

Hm... Regarding the last sentence: Many people pay for Spotify, and in the past they paid even more for records and CDs, but people rarely pay for pictures, if ever. Maybe once to decorate their new flat. People also go to concerts of their favorite musicians, while they basically never visit art exhibitions.