As someone who considers himself an unusually general art connoisseur, I can simply tell you the answer as more or less fact from personal experience:
While within at least some art forms (taste based ones seem prone to it, probably due to how taste works biologically...) all of these might exists, most of them only do so as rare exceptions.
The main mechanism behind the vast majority is a combination of something very similar to your 4, and that MAKING art changes your evaluation relative someone who has merely consumed and studied existing works. The reason they become so high status is because working towards this specific niche audience with the handicap of not being able to use common tactics because they’re bored of them, and not being able to cut corners without it being spotted by someone because they have been cutting those same corners themselves, and still being able to make something enjoyable, is much harder. Sort of, there are some confounding variables and additional effects and other random details I’ve skipped over to save space.
And don’t attempt to learn likening something you don’t naturally. Not only will you get spotted as an imposter by anyone who ACTUALLY know something about the field, it’s also a negative sum game creating noise and more of those nasty exceptions. If you want high status you have to work for it: consume lots of the art form, with variation, including historical ones that are strictly less enjoyable but are referenced by later works a lot, read up on the history of the field, and try MAKING rather than just consuming.
EDIT: Just realized I’m very tired and remembered I tend to be WAY overconfident and unable to calibrate when I am, but I still am both those things so I can’t fix it, so I’ll just write this and let the reader calibrate.
As someone who considers himself an unusually general art connoisseur, I can simply tell you the answer as more or less fact from personal experience:
While within at least some art forms (taste based ones seem prone to it, probably due to how taste works biologically...) all of these might exists, most of them only do so as rare exceptions.
The main mechanism behind the vast majority is a combination of something very similar to your 4, and that MAKING art changes your evaluation relative someone who has merely consumed and studied existing works. The reason they become so high status is because working towards this specific niche audience with the handicap of not being able to use common tactics because they’re bored of them, and not being able to cut corners without it being spotted by someone because they have been cutting those same corners themselves, and still being able to make something enjoyable, is much harder. Sort of, there are some confounding variables and additional effects and other random details I’ve skipped over to save space.
And don’t attempt to learn likening something you don’t naturally. Not only will you get spotted as an imposter by anyone who ACTUALLY know something about the field, it’s also a negative sum game creating noise and more of those nasty exceptions. If you want high status you have to work for it: consume lots of the art form, with variation, including historical ones that are strictly less enjoyable but are referenced by later works a lot, read up on the history of the field, and try MAKING rather than just consuming.
EDIT: Just realized I’m very tired and remembered I tend to be WAY overconfident and unable to calibrate when I am, but I still am both those things so I can’t fix it, so I’ll just write this and let the reader calibrate.