So when you say there's not standards at all, You're...
Modern art.
Art is subjective. It's totally based on opinions and my opinion is that modern art is good. So that makes it your word against mine. How do we decide between the two of us. Standards are just opinions that people tend to follow. Everybody's standards are different. So when you say there's not standards at all, You're speaking for the whole world, Which you can't do. So what you really mean is that the art doesn't fit YOUR standards, AKA, It's your opinion. The artists who create modern art do have standards, You just don't agree with them. Define Trashy please. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, That is an objective fact that you cannot refute. "art should not be made to express a statement" That's just your opinion, Unless you can find a reason why it's immoral to do so. "Beauty is transcendent" You mean like god? If that's what you're saying then produce god for me and then I'll accept this claim.