Simply saying "there are no standards, anything can be art as long as I know the guy?" is laughable dog shit. That's the idiotic shit people like Tanoomba believe because they truly believe the world should be a social club, and deciphering an actual measurement or way to PREDICT enjoyment? Is bad.
What are you even talking about? What "people like me" (whatever that means)
believe has nothing to do with it. I'm just telling you how it is. You don't have to like it (clearly you don't) but the art world doesn't care. Don't blame me for your inability to deal with reality.
I also never said measuring ways to predict enjoyment was bad. That's just yet another straw man. What I said was that art
doesn't have to be about enjoyment. It's been that way for quite a while now, despite your protests.
The prosecution rests. Thank you Tan, for proving that who knows you makes something art, not any quality of the expression. (No one needed know who Michelangelo to look up at the Sistine chapel and say "that's something special". Yet nearly everyone would need to KNOW who Pollock is to even know his painting was not literally garbage (Because Pollock's paintings have literally been mistaken for garbage before--not kidding.) )
And here is the reason why--because people like Tan believe shit on a plate can become art if people who like the smell of their own farts say so, because they are brave and won't be deterred.
Another straw man so soon? Nothing in my post implied
who you know has anything to do with art. if you read my post, you'd notice I said art is created by artists who have studied, developed skill in and produce art. I also never said anything about artists being brave in the face of people trying to claim what they produce isn't art. That's your third straw man in a very brief time.
The problem you're having grasping this is that you have a pathological (borderline obsessive)
need for art to be defined by inherent qualities in the object itself. You want to believe that if an object can meet certain measurable criteria then it's art, and if it can't then it isn't. Art's not like that, though, despite what you would personally prefer.
Also, you're wrong in your assertion that modern art is somehow destroying or delegitimizing art created for the purposes of appealing to the greatest common denominator. There are still plenty of artists who study classical art composition (rule of thirds and whatnot) and develop traditional skills to create gorgeous works nearly everyone can enjoy. It's not a "one or the other" thing, which you might know if you knew anything about art at all instead of just insisting on complaining about people creating art you don't like.
