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/^t/It appears that with the growth of popularity of modern art some artists started to forget that 'visual art is visual' producing things of little artistic value only to amaze the audience. It is especially true of the conceptual artists. One of the famous representatives of this group, Michael Craig Martin, put a glass of water on a glass shelf and named it 'An Oak Tree'. He explained that although it looked like a glass of water, it had been transformed into an oak tree. Such works are based on intellectual ideas which are interesting only to their author and a small group of critics. For ordinary people who think that art should be admired for its visual beauty, works like 'An Oak Tree' are only odd and boring.