> Art is about art That is a very modernist way of looking at it. I think art ceases to become art when it is self-referential. Art is truth, and great art can

> Art is about art That is a very modernist way of looking at it. I think art ceases to become art when it is self-referential. Art is truth, and great art can stand alone, divorced from context. > is driven towards art because they want the masses to be pleased about their artwork Agreed, artists are self-driven. > Will what Picasso expressed still be accessible to humans removed from our contemporary culture? Yes. For the masses? Not in the chaotic absence of culture that dominates our time. Artists like Picasso could only become so influential because the art buying elites were hellbent on rejecting the existing bourgeois order. This included a distaste for conformity, which turned into an obsession with originality. I genuinely doubt that humans removed from our contemporary culture will look in awe at art produced in such an incestuous context, rather, more they will pity the conditions in which such art thrived. Or just ignore it.