This is why you need the museum, art critic, docent and the monstrous gold frame around a humble Cezanne painting of some fruit on a table. Half of Van Gogh's

This is why you need the museum, art critic, docent and the monstrous gold frame around a humble Cezanne painting of some fruit on a table. Half of Van Gogh's work was destroyed, dismissed as trash. Van Gogh was an unsophisticated man. To avoid this fate and gain credibility, artists and writers will add superfluous flourishes. The way I see it, art often gets the "sophistication upgrade" to meet the sophisticated audience halfway. LOL.