I began leafing his biting ink drawings of the rich and the poor in Berling circa 1920. The faces of greed, and the faces of the victims of greed, that Grosz had drawn 80 years ago, I realized, are the faces I see around me in 21st century America. The faces of SUV drivers, and the faces of the homeless around whom SUV drivers adroitly steer.
Rewards can be big for artists of the status quo.
Picasso is the role-model here. It's OK to be a little bit critical of the social-economic order. You can then continue your career of toadying reflections of the way things are quite profitably. In Weimar Germany. In pre-Hilter Germany, his drawings were repeatedly attacked, censored, confiscated, and destroyed.