are you an art critic, or are you just parroting the cool kids?
You don't have to be an art critic to recognize that the market for Modern Art exhibits some fairly obvious signs of being a Money Laundering operation for "highly respected" criminals. Many paintings and sculptures are valued far in excess of their desirability or artistic merit.
Also, EVERYBODY is an "art critic." That particular activity has zero prerequisites, all you need is an opinion and a mouth to speak it.
So {this particular artistic expression} is bad because why?
Because Hitler didn't like it? I don't like a lot of things because they conflict with my cultural upbringing, that's not a useful metric to judge the market value of something
Because art can be used for money laundering? Does that make all art suspect because it's value may be inflated
Art isn't unionised, if you don't like it you don't have to paint like that or buy it equally art doesn't have to be decorative, how many pictures of idyllic tree lined rivers do you need now? If you want art to mean anything then art has to reflect culture, if you find culture abhorrent then the solution is to change it. Getting angry at Rothko isn't going to change anything
Everybody is an "art critic"
That's like saying everyone is a theatre critic, even a Somalian who doesn't speak the language or understand the cultural references or even the point of someone talking about a long dead Prince of Denmark for 4 hours, and that's before anyone gets rated for their acting ability. People can have an opinion, but their opinion usually has zero worth as an objective critique
Oh please fuck off with that shit. I know the difference between actual art and a Jackson Pollock. I don;t get lost in the weeds of sophistry because I have SENSE.
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