21st Century Art Makes Its Escape From the Toilet

We don't need Modernism and Post-Modernism anymore.

Daniel Henninger argues that modern art is dead. In fact it died a long time ago, it's just that most Americans haven't noticed it, and for art that is the problem. When artists abandoned the traditional purpose behind art, the pursuit of truth and beauty, they set art on the path of eventual irrelevance. Now most Americans ignore the comings and goings of the most recent fads in art and rightly so. Art has become political and in so doing has ceased to be art at all. If art is to have a rebirth in the 21st century, artists will have to return to a rational understanding of what art is and why it is important. Art should speak to the universal in Man. It should hold up a vision of what life is about and the importance and meaning of human existence.