Art rant

I just watched this commercial where they show this wealthy young person posting a frame on the wall and says " her first real art " ... and its like a bunch of colored stripes. I know its a commercial but I realized : I'm afraid I'm of the opinion that while anything can be *art*, if it doesn't demonstrate *skill*, its unremarkable to me. I realize that this is a dated view because we can now easily generate images , potentially reducing the value of technical skill vs conceptualization. But the term art... the root word means skill, I'll remind the reader. Abstract lines on a paper could demonstrate aesthetic know how. I'll grant that. But the skills I'm concerned with when I think of art are an understanding of light and shadow, form, knowledge of the subjects morphology ( For example if your subject is a figure , you should demonstrate knowledge of anatomy, if your subject is a building, you should demonstrate knowledge of architecture ) , perspective, value, color, and composition. Those are the skills I am concerned with. To me, an artist who demonstrates expertise in those abilities is an expert artist... and abstract art doesn't demonstrate most of those. I'd like to point out that surrealism and Dada are excluded from that because surrealist art could include those elements. Arguably, AI or computer assisted art may not demonstrate those abilities . I would consider 3d rendering analogous to sculpture if its done by a human, and I'd say if a human uses programs to paint manually without the aid of procedural generation or ai, then that also is analogous to painting. My belief is that the entire point is to demonstrate skills while also expressing ones perception of the subject. The process is important but the goal of the process is an integral part of that process. Finally I'd add that for comics and sequential or narrative art, I'd add that the goals of storytelling or conveyance of whatever concept potentially supersede those mentioned above, and that I'd add a whole extra set of evaluative criterion based upon literary or comedic abilities. I do believe you can and should be able to call whatever you want art , thats important and there may be other reasons societal or aesthetic ones for creating any number of works that fall askew of this whole diatribe ... however boring and or passe those works may be. Anyway, there's my rant.