People widely seek after cans of poop produced by modern "artists." Why? Becaue they're hoping to sell them tomorrow for more than what they paid for them today.
No one likes or wants modern art. It's a giant speculative bubble. So many wealthy people are invested in it, that they can't afford for the bubble to collapse. But when it does, when someone finally shouts, "the emperor has no clothes," the bubble will collapse, and I will be laughing my butt off.
Van Gogh and Gauguin were post impressionists, hardly moedern.