So are guys in prison who express themselves on shirt cardboard. Even consumers are artists when they express themselves in their selection of commodities. The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators. If it is going really badly, put a bandage on the dog's paw. This is the basic principle behind victim art.
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist.
That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year. There are still some traditionalists, mostly employed by art schools, who continue to paint like members of the Ash Can School, with earnest First World War realism. For years it has pleased the avant-garde to keep these Amish around to portray the art establishment. But for generations the real art establishment has been made up of earth sculptors, body piercers, and topless cello players. Can School has even had a prayer.