Interesting story...
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Originally Posted by Moonbiter  One person's pile of cold vomit can be the next person's Mona Lisa, and in my book, after many years of banging my head against the wall in self-centered frustration, that's perfectly fine by me. |
I guess it's called subjective interpretation of aesthetic experience, or something equally nonsensical.
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Originally Posted by Moonbiter Can it be evaluated? Who's gonna do that? |
I'll tell you who - vast hordes of appraisers, brokers, art market dealers and other merchants peddling the pathetic pieces of crap produced by more or less inept or delusional (or both) artists (preferably died of unnatural causes), after the above mentioned pieces were sufficiently hyped up by so called art critics. Conjured "names" end up in the posh art galleries, intellectual snobs pretend they "understand" and "feel", and some customers (investors) eventually pay a pretty penny for the commodified "artwork".
Such as
White Center by Mark Rothko, which was sold for whooping $72.8 million at Sotheby's:
NGA | Mark Rothko | Classic Paintings 2a
This was my small spontaneous axiological contribution to this discussion.