Actually what happenned was the rise of conceptual art.
It started with pointillism then surrealism and so on until abstract art and now the full blown conceptual art that we see today.
It is sickness, which has solidified the separation between "artisan" and "artist" when these two things were originally the same.
In the past, what define good art was skill and experience, not orginality.
The perpetual search for individualism and orginiality has created this sitation of an art conscious of itself as so.
Just like man has become "conscious that he is conscious" and therefore became neurotic (read Allan Watts and UG Krishnamurti, ,for instance), this so called conteptual art is neurotic.
However, I was very pleased to discover that there is a movement which instead of seeking origniality through further and further abstraction and conceptualization, searched for actuality by taking a non conceptual look at technology and "hach" the machine in the sense of twisting its original purpose.
This is the Neen movement, founded my Miltos Manetas, which purpose is to "use and abuse technology, particularily computers, in order to create unexpected artistic results".
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neen
(Sorry, it's a french wikipedia page but there isn't an english one).
(Funny story, the name Neen was actually invented by the californian Lexicon marketing chamber to describe art as it is becoming through new medias and internet, a thing for which Miltos Manetas felt that the term "contemporary art" wasn't suited.
My favorite representent of the Neen movement is Rafael Rozendaal, and you can discover some of his work here:
newrafael.com/
he mostly creates websites that are actually purposeless art pieces.
some examples:
openthiswindow.com/
openthatwindow.com/
sinkslow.com/
He also make pretty cool haikus. His talks are also kinda interesting.
Welp, that was my contribution to the thread.
