• But if there is anything that separates modern artists from both the earlier
traditionalists and later postmodernists, it is their belief that art mattered.
• To them, art had real value.
• By contrast, their predecessors simply assumed it had value.
• After all they had lived in an era governed by Christian value systems and
had simply "followed the rules."
• And those who came after the Modern period (1970 onwards), the so-called
"postmodernists", largely rejected the idea that art (or life) has any intrinsic
value.