[driftless]

The really naughty little secret that even most art "experts" know to be true is that most modern "art" is in fact utter garbage. Since before Jackson Pollock's time, twentieth-century artistes realized that they were completely unable to duplicate the genius of the painters and sculptors who came before them. Therefore why not creat a completely new art form i.e. abstract art and fool the masses and most critics while making money untalented hand over amateurish fist .

Unfortunately (for the artistes), the masses proved to be harder to fool than the critics who pay lip-service to modern art but probably secretly despise it and know that most of it is junk and the practitioners mostly fraudulent hacks wishing to make millions off the credulity of the ignorati.

[RJL]

The really naughty little secret that even most art "experts" know to be true is that most modern "art" is in fact utter garbage.

Exactly. The only "art" involved here is the art of selling and getting paid for this garbage.