from what I've seen - because older art was so good and modern art is about expressing "feelings and not so not pleasing the eyes? When I look at paintings by the masters and compare them to this modern crap art there is no comparison, particulary the artists who paint realistically like this. There's a lot of really good contermporary artists who paint realistically. I'm no art scholar at all but I did done my fair share of sketching and some painting when I was younger and enjoy what is pleasing to the eye:
