I never said that—I was not attacking any specific pieces of art, but rather large fine art museums like the Louvre in general. (But for that matter, I also happen to think that the Mona Lisa isn’t quite as special as it’s been made out to be—though that’s totally beside the point here, which is why I never said anything like that before.) And it’s not like I’m saying they’re all terrible and have no value or anything, I’m just saying they’re pretentious. Is that really such a ridiculous claim to make?? I mean, art museums—and fine art enthusiasts who frequent them—having a pretentious vibe is a well established stereotype, for crying out loud! Again, I’m not calling the concept of “collections of artistic human achievement” pretentious—I’m referring to the execution of that concept as seen in many fine art museums. These places are often designed to be far more grandiose and ornate than they need to be, and the fact is that the selection of specific works of art that are featured can be pretty arbitrary. There are plenty of examples of well known artists being propped up and celebrated over lesser known artists of the same period whose works could be regarded to be of similar (if not better!) quality—especially when it comes to modern times—yet those lesser known artists’ works don’t get the same kind of recognition. And whose to declare which art is “better” or more deserving of being displayed in a museum over others, anyway? As I said, I’m not attacking all museums in their entirety here—and I’m hardly even doing that much, just calling them pretentious—but compare any smaller, community-run art display with a big fancy museum and it’s hard not to see how the latter may come off as pretty pretentious.
Also, please don’t call me your cousin.
, but I'm okay with that, but in terms of the most typical Nintendo philosophy (gameplay first), Takahashi and Kojima are indeed overly cinematic.
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