They always do when one evaluates art and artists. In the hands of the modern museum, Modernism can even dangerously assimilate its heritage . The distinctions do not have to be subtle. The shock of Africa's art has not always been subtle. Nor are distinctions in art eternal.
Old shocks lose their force, opening up new kinds of awareness.
In this case, one knows that the modernist rebellion cannot straitjacket an artist today. Yet out of comparable distinctions come art, morality, and love.