Noted for the reference, will look deeper. I also reached out to a few specialists , to get a sense for how long the prayer beads would have taken. I am genuine

Noted for the reference, will look deeper. I also reached out to a few specialists , to get a sense for how long the prayer beads would have taken. I am genuinely curious. Thanks for your thoughts. > It did not affect contemporaries of Van Gogh, and most people who are affected by it are so after having been immersed in a culture claiming it is high-art, or facing ridicule as uneducated rubes. I believe most of the time this actually means "has some market value". I agree that there's a lot of strutting in art, but I think this is too cynical of an assessment. This kind of argument can be made for books, obtuse mathematical works (Principia Mathematica, 1980s AI, etc), and the new programming paradigm du jour. Eventually critics and contemporaries die, and time begins to tell what was truly exceptional and what wasn't. I would bet Van Gogh falls into the great camp; but we'll see for sure in a few more centuries.