The secularization of society in the West since the seventeenth century gradually stripped the visual arts of their traditional functions.
Leswi vanhu lava tshamaka eVupela-dyambu bya misava a va nga ha ri na mhaka ni mahanyelo hi lembe-xidzana ra vu-20, sweswo swi endle leswaku va tiendlela leswi nga swinene ematihlweni ya vona loko swi ta etimhakeni ta rimbewu.