It's interesting to think of how internalized capitalism shapes our sense of understanding confessions in our present temporal conditions, bleh bleh, bleh bleh.

Got to keep that market moving, and all the sales BS, helps the buyer justify the price, feel important, and better than Joe bag of doughnuts. The narcissism of small differences, in the post modern sense, trying achieve a superficial sense of one's own uniqueness. I got this and you don't.

Doesn't hurt to learn the lingo so you can flirt with the artist though...

Went to art school and really hated the "artspeak" aspect of it. The idea that all work had to be processed and described in a certain way. I found it very elitist. When you're looking at a piece that consists of a pile of wood and shards of broken glass or something, which is essentially crap. The artist is supposed to elevate it to something profound by presenting it in a certain way. I always saw it as an Emperor's New Clothes deal. Where we all have to pretend crap art is enlightened and the innocent (or "uneducated") see it for what it is. I keep waiting for this house of cards to crumble but it never does. I guess society has too much invested in the lie.

Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes. There have been many times I looked at the work of an art school graduate and thought that person has no training, it was total trash. Far too much BS in the art scene.

Yeah, I never read music reviews as they can only compare it to something else. You have to hear it for yourself.

You clearly don’t appreciate the art of hermeneutics and the ontological relevance of my found objects :)

As an artist I’ve always hated that crap too. Other people deciding what the artist was saying in the piece, etc. Same thing with literature too. Some academic writes an essay that supposedly tells everyone who’s about to read the book what the author was saying. The only person who knows what they’re wanting to convey by their particular form of artistic expression is the artist. And the ones that try all that bs mumbo jumbo are just yanking your chain. The VAG once had an entire huge room in the gallery with nothing but a bunch of ropes and pulleys hung from the ceiling as an “installation”. Total bs, but stupid people buy into the rhetoric and even stupider people actually buy the “art”.

:-)

...technique is overrated. Artists can't compete with AI. Check out some of the free AI software available now online. You want a guy holding coca cola, riding a dragon in the style of Van Gogh? Done. You want it enhanced to see 'brushstrokes'? Done. If the 'concept' isn't respected, what's left for the artists?