...it will only make sense if there would be any definite (for the luck of the better word) meaning of life. In my opinion artist would be the one who should be on a forefront (if anyone else) of defining it...

acting for the sake of action whether it would be postmodernism or else is just like "chewing on your own snot" (according to current Russian President).

I did like the point:

"It is interesting that the three most influential painters of the modern era - (in no particular order) Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin - lived and worked as far outside of their contemporary societies as they could"