Hmm. If you consider weavers artists then pre modern ideas of artists is the correct idea. Artists are nothing more than laborers and their product isn't worth any more than minimum wage. The exact same going rate as any other laborer. Either there are limits as to what at is or there isn't. If there isn't then at is no more, more likely less valuable, than the coffee and biscuit made by the local fast food employee. Also, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, opened his co-ed school long before the Bauhaus. Modern art isn't art.