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If it afflicts the comfortable or comforts the afflicted, it's art. If it does both, it's Fine Art.
by cratermoon 3y ago
If it afflicts the comfortable or comforts the afflicted, it's art. If it does both, it's Fine Art.
- whatshisface 3y agoWho in power did Rembrandt afflict?
- JKCalhoun 3y ago(Of course we will assume that Rembrandt's works are art.)
- andsoitis 3y ago> Who in power did Rembrandt afflict? The Nightwatch was controversial because of its unconventional composition and departure from traditional Dutch painting conventions. His “Bathsheba at Her Bath” caused trouble too. Hendrickje received three summonses from the Reformed Church to answer the charge "that she had committed the acts of a whore with Rembrandt the painter". She admitted her guilt and was banned from receiving communion.
- whatshisface 3y agoThey should go back to having arbitrary and tightly held beliefs about how paintings should be so that nice things can be fine art again.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoMost art is for communicating the sublime (i.e., the proverbial "ceremonial purposes" of archeology), not for something as base as comfort.