In modern times  more and more over the course of the last two hundred years  we have come to speak as though every artist had to rebel against the art of his contemporaries Art is praised in terms of being unique revolutionary shocking even We feel good about admiring the artist whose work no one appreciated a hundred years ago But when we get to the art of our own day we get cold feet and say that an artist has gone too far that what he does can no longer be called art Or rather the media say it for us And on the whole we agree because we expect to be puzzled by arts insistent newness  so much so that we do not notice the old themes methods and also virtues that the art of our own time is full of