When there is no drama, art doesn’t happen, because art is a form of expression of something inexpressibly bubbling, tearing apart from the inside. Plastic and, especially, linguistic forms of art are, first and foremost, drama. The manifestations of these forms that admire the beauty of the world are less popular, though they can be quite significant.
But, in any case, they are also popular as a contrast to the other, to what is difficult or impossible to admire. Drama. Shout. Conflict. The highest achievements in art are a skillful combination of drama and admiration for this world. But without drama, it’s impossible. Take any work that is completely all beauty. It will be boring.
Death and destruction provoke much greater interest, except when it comes to purely visual art. Pastoral scenes and still lifes with fruit, of course, are much more pleasant to observe than the painting Ivan the Terrible Strikes His Son, but they lack such depth. So, art (though it may reflect society) is not meant to reflect an ideal society, balance, or spiritual and mental prosperity because it is, in itself, solely the product of fragmentation, imbalance, and rupture.