The story of modern art

What is called modern art may be a drawing, engraved by primitive artists on the Lascaux caves in southern France about twenty thousand years ago. It may also be a painting that Picasso finished one morning. What we mean by the word "modern" in relation to art does not apply. On the meaning of this adjective as defined by dictionaries, but it sometimes extends to include works dating back to the most ancient times and sometimes narrows; It excludes the works of some contemporary artists, who paint paintings that their grandparents would have admired some sixty years ago or more.
It can be said without fear of exaggeration: For about sixty years, there was no one among our ancestors who had a taste - and very few of them knew - the works of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, or Seurat, those who are considered today without dispute the masters of modern art. . It is common in the field of art that new things are initially met with resistance and aversion, and are even strongly denounced. Then one generation passes and another generation comes. He begins to accept and approve of this new thing. If the third generation comes, we see this new one honored and enhanced as part of the eternal heritage. Most likely, the fourth generation ignores this new thing, describing it as old and outdated.