Aphorisms about Art July 6, 2014 at 1:05pm Pop Art is the opposite of Folk Art. Minimalism: Drafting Tools dreaming of Plato. We are all Modernists. I am a Modernist. Contemporary art was a category created by the auction houses. I say that all Modern Art comes out of the desire to experiment. Contemporary and Modern are synonyms so we are all still Modernists. Postmodernism was a dialectical shift within the framework. Tristam Shandy was the first Postmodern novel.