The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Indeed, the Greeks regarded art as a way to glimpse the ideal, as this sculpture shows. Venus de Medici. 3rd century BCE. Marble.
Where do we get our visions of the ideal today? From art, or some other realm?
The reality is that modern society is not as refined as Greeks or Romans were.
I consider that modern society has lost touch with the true meaning of art. People are so exposed to mass media content through television or social media, where they broadcast simple things.
Marketing and advertising have created models for what beauty is, what is the ideal size for women, the stereotyped man of women. And that is not art. That is marketing trying to sell and manipulate people in order to generate more consumption.
That is where people get their vision today.
Often, and just a few people, like to visit a museum to admire pieces of art, sculptures, or paintings.
It seems that people prefer what is conventional, what is common, and what corporations want to impose through advertising.
