I had forgotten about this until just now, but there are examples where the connoisseurs actually are on to something that the average viewer/listener is missing. In a class I once took on Russian art, we watched a wordless documentary that was meant help one see the world the way avant-garde artists like Malevich or Kandinskiy did when they were painting. It changed my appreciation of this kind of art considerably—I would now tend to dispute claims that these sorts of paintings are not representational. (I still have to regard this as a joke, though.)
Also, I genuinely, non-ironically like RussianPrimitivism even though it often sort of looks like “my seven-year-old could do that”.
I had forgotten about this until just now, but there are examples where the connoisseurs actually are on to something that the average viewer/listener is missing. In a class I once took on Russian art, we watched a wordless documentary that was meant help one see the world the way avant-garde artists like Malevich or Kandinskiy did when they were painting. It changed my appreciation of this kind of art considerably—I would now tend to dispute claims that these sorts of paintings are not representational. (I still have to regard this as a joke, though.)
Also, I genuinely, non-ironically like Russian Primitivism even though it often sort of looks like “my seven-year-old could do that”.