There is indeed no shortage of physical paintings being produced. It's the same with music. For every musician you hear on the radio, there must be a thousand musicians putting their work on Spotify or some other platform. There's likely more art being produced now than ever before. You certainly seem to be an appreciator of it.

The problem I wanted to address isn't that there's no art at all. The question is why so many artists are poor even though their work is priceless. Some people value art enough to pay for it, but let's just say that that old patronage relationship is being pressured, too, like never before, by the digitzation of content and by runaway capitalism (neoliberalism, the profit motive, etc). Perhaps for every honest patron of the arts, there are a hundred or a thousand pirates who view art as disposable or as "information that wants to be free."