>>1507 (OP)The primacy of the image has been degraded. I'm speaking of painting mostly here. Modern arts quality can only be described in words, transcendly beautiful art needs no explanation for a person who knows nothing about the art, medium, artist, or it's history. If a piece of art cannot presumably be appreciated at some level by a small child, a hunter-gather, a retard, a poor individual, a rich individual, a art critic, a individual from the distant past, a woman, ect. than it is missing something essential.