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But uninteresting to an art specialist like you does not make it uninteresting to his many, many fans. Of course what he does is art, what meaningful line can y
by lores 3y ago
But uninteresting to an art specialist like you does not make it uninteresting to his many, many fans. Of course what he does is art, what meaningful line can you put between art and craft? I'd even argue that he has far more impact on the world by bringing a little aesthetic happiness to millions than even a Turner-prize winning artist like Tai Shani, who's meaningful only to a few.
- atoav 3y agoI am not an art specialist. I studied art, but my field was film, not painting. My mother is a painter so maybe that counts who knows. I did not say anything about his role in society and whether it is okay to like him or not. It is. It was also great for Bob Ross for example to do what he did in communicating art: His paintings are not stellar examples of landscape painting, but he managed to inspire many people to go for the journey and that is worth a lot. Subjectively, to me as someone who has a closer background to arts than most I find it lacks something — and that something might make all the difference between lasting love or forgetting him in a few years time. Other people might have differing opinions. Think of any field you know something of. E.g. if you are in tech there might be some celebrity non-tech people see as a tech genius. But you know they are mediocre at best. That doesn't takw away from their ability to reach people, but it is not the same as being stellar in their field.