Later came Abstract art which most found meaningless and incomprehensible.

The artists desire to shock, outrage and startle the public, was often politically motivated, usually towards some kind of movement or social reform.

Art was also associated by with ruling class, as we learnt in Jon Berger’s “Ways of Seeing.” Thus the artist themselves felt compelled to destroy arts.

French sociologist, Peter Bourdieu said in hid book, “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”;

“By a miraculous dialectical renewal, the countless acts of desacrilisation which modern art perpetrated against arts have always turn into artistic acts, to the glory of the artists and art.”