Modernism

The BS of the artworld seems like it started in France. See exhibit below.

The artist and writers and amateur philosophers (as are all French people), threw fancy words around anything that moved, including the latest canvas.

My experience is that such word sleuthing is empty of anything of value, as is the whole French tradition of debating the toss of the cockroach.

It’s a cultural appendix that should have long been excised. And yet not.