Most of the popular art we enjoy is made in an industrial capacity.
Hayao Miyazaki did not draw every frame of Kiki's Delivery Service by himself. He has a whole studio of animators, producers, engineers, and other staff who animated, edited and distributed the movie. The "Ghibli Style" is not just something Miyazaki created out of nowhere, animators and concept artists, (who probably have their own unique styles) are required to work in that exact style because they are working for a project. I am sure that many of them enjoyed working on it, but it does not mean that it was not work, it does not mean that they might have their own ideas but they were working for the idea of someone else. Even the process of writing involved many people (you do know it was inspired in a book right?) let alone the process of distributing the movie. This is true for every animated show and movie you enjoy. Rebecca Sugar did not make Steven Universe by herself, Alex Hirsch did not make every episode of Gravity falls. They were very much assembled by many people, sometimes obeying corporate directives and animated in studios overseas that had little connection with the 'creators' themselves, they were just executing a job as per instructed. They are art, of course, but art made by industrial labor. Do I even need to post the picture of the Disney animator strike? Animation is an artform that would be completely impossible without industry, in tools and production.
George Lucas also didn't made Star Wars by himself, many of the things that made Star Wars so unique, from sets to characters to CGI to music and even writing were made by other artists working with him in things that he was not an expert himself. No director, in fact, can produce anything alone, but neither can actors, writers or engineers. Every TV show has an innumerable number of people working backstage, even the writers who write the best moments often go nearly anonymous. And speaking of writing, which one could consider one of the most personal examples, to publish a book it needs to go through an editor and it needs to go to a publisher. The fact that you have a book at home means that hundreds, thousands of people labored for it, not just the writer.
The myth that art is something that is made by lonely genius inspired by something ethereal is just as a myth as the lone genius scientist who discovers something without the help of anyone. This does not make them less art or less enjoyable. It just means that every piece of art we enjoy or otherwise, yes, even those that seem to have been made by a single person, has gone through industrial production processes, often very separate from an original "vision" or "creator", often made by workers who are not working on their own creativity but working for others. This should be discussed, understood, and transformed in many cases. But it does not make them less art.
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