painting was once a sign of 'making it'
every household would try and have at least one painting, often dozens.
photography comes about.
people put up pictures of people and such instead, as it was quickly cheaper than a painting.
painting became more expensive as fewer people could paint for money, most it was a cost
prints of paintings could now be produced as well.
prints become dominant source 'paintings' in houses.
painters became unicorns and few ever made a enough to survive on.
cheap easily accessible decorative pictures and prints lead to apathy at owning such decorations.
the prevalence of those decorations had declined year over year for a century.
now its harder to find such decorations without special ordering them despite their cheapness
you are here
prevalence of screen time results in no walled decorations existing in most houses, paintings are singular in number in those tiny handful of homes which one one.
it becomes odd to have a picture of a screen cap on your wall, people stop all together.
in a century people have game quizzes on strange wall pictures and paintings and you only see such in museums, of which only a couple are on display as nobody cares.
le hand art is a childs doodle before they start crafting things in virtual shortly after walking and receiving their first screen.