Interesting indictment of pop culture. Great images. I did not know the artist. Help illustrate your point. We are saturated by "abhorent" noise and poor taste forced-fed as art.
Of course, artist would have to agree that beauty is relative and all that, but as it happens with literary classics, time and the confluence of critical voices end up prooving certain premises right.
Not everything call artistic is art; not everything elevates the spirit and enhances human sensibilities and potential (asuming that's art's purpose).
Selfish self expression has always existed in all artistic manifestations, but they are either forgotten or become the cults of sub-cultures.
"Engineered" art, for money's sake has the capacity to saturate itself, though and allows more elevated manifestations to pop up ;)