"The Mona Lisa"... "The Pieta"... "The Girl with a Pearl Earring."...."The Night Watch"... "The Thinker"... "The Rocky Mountains."....For a score of centuries, artists enriched society with their works of astonishing beauty. Master after master, from Leonardo, to Rembrandt, to Bierstadt, produced works that inspired, uplifted, and deepened us. And they did this by demanding of themselves the highest standards of excellence, improving upon the work of each previous generation of masters, and continuing to aspire to the highest quality attainable. But something happened on the way to the 20th Century! The profound, the inspiring and the
beautiful were replaced by the new, the different, and the ugly. 
Today the silly, the pointless, and the purely offensive are held up as the best of modern art !

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