Abstract art was one of the first up front western concrete expressions of an IDEA.  Fifty years later the internet  is the current continual commerce of galactic mashes of  IDEAS.  Before the internet you'd go to the basement of the Modern Museum of Art in DC to see what people were thinking without the aid of concepts.   Now thats on your phone next to your part.  It is the next best elevation of the Individual, in line with the American tradition, but it is being manipulated, dumbed down just as cave scratches were used to scare away Neanderthals.