you didnt critique any specific piece of art but you did put scare quotes around "best" works of art, which carries a lot of implications.
also you say this
but immediately before that you say this
which means you obviously do believe in some kind of metric for measuring the cultural importance or impact of art, you just think you know best lol. perhaps the pretentions were the friends we made along the way
No, I’m saying that the way in which museums—or society and history in general, perhaps, as in how certain art and artists become famous over others—get to choose which works to feature over others can be arbitrary and/or unfair in practice, and that there’s a lot more art in the world that you could argue
should be celebrated just as much if not more so, but select art and artists are instead put on a pedestal high above the rest in a rather pretentious manner. Also, in that last sentence you quoted from me, note that I specifically said “
whose works could be regarded to be of similar (if not better!) quality”—I’m not talking about what
I believe, personally, here. I’m no art critic or historian, but I don’t need to be one to know that fine art museums aren’t exactly the most fair and balanced collections of artistic human achievement, and that there is undoubtably a great deal of bias involved in determining which art and artists become famous and which are ignored.
Anyway, my point was just that art museums can be pretty pretentious—which, again, isn’t exactly a wild or uncommon sentiment at all. And, again, I’m not talking about
all parts of
all museums—but this is the internet where everything must be read in extremes, I guess.
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I couldn't disagree more!
