People will love all sorts of stupid shit if it's put in a gallery. (Commentary on that phenomenon is, in fact, an entire art movement -- readymades.) There are

People will love all sorts of stupid shit if it's put in a gallery. (Commentary on that phenomenon is, in fact, an entire art movement -- readymades.) There are two questions we should be asking here: 1) Does a positive gallery reception indicate artistic value? Presumably not. 2) If we assume that these style transfers have artistic value, is it similar to the value of the original paintings? This is a more difficult question, but the answer does seem to be "no."