(January 5, 2015 at 2:56 pm)abaris Wrote: Yet there is no objective standard. There isn't a checklist to say this or that artist is better than another one. To illustrate this, here's the story of painter Pierre Brassau.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/...tist-hoax/
Well, there can never be an objective standard. I agree that much of what is defined as art is largely subjective. What I'm saying, however, is that one person's subjectivity can have a more solid justification, which comes from an understanding of the artistic medium.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
