> The average person is (perhaps unfortunately) not the judge of art. I disagree. This, to me, is equivalent to being a linguistic prescriptivist. If art is su

> The average person is (perhaps unfortunately) not the judge of art. I disagree. This, to me, is equivalent to being a linguistic prescriptivist. If art is subjective, then art academics and modern artists hold no exclusive claim to judging art. If 99% of people look at modern art and consider it a joke, then that means within their subjective interpretation of what art is, they're correct. It's not like math where you can say 1 doesn't equal 2. And if you go out of your way to define art so that you can justify modern art and exclude normal people, then you're just playing semantics and defining something that the average person never cared about in the first place.