Is there such a thing as good taste?

Re:Is there such a thing as good taste? by dfxm12 on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:14AM (#29228338)

If this is true, I would bet it has more to do with metadata of the art rather than the art itself. Taste might not even enter the equation. The Michelangelo piece has many things going for it before you even get to the art itself: Painter's name value, importance to a Catholics (and probably other Christians, too), the original is a larger part of pop culture, the original is hung in a more iconic building, the importance of who commissioned it, people are more likely to have seen the Michelangelo in person and are likely to have a personal connection to it, etc.

Ask someone, you can have a replica of a piece you've seen, maybe even in person, that has cultural importance to their religion and it is by {famous artist} or you can have a replica of a piece by {some other artist}. I'd guess they'd go with what they know, sight unseen.

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Re:Is there such a thing as good taste? by lr4444lr on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:56AM (#29228843)

Fair challenge. But go to a totally different culture where no one has heard of either of the two artists or at least produce a replica of a very obscure work from each of them and ask the unknowing, uneducated person would rather have hanging on their wall for their equally ignorant friends to come and see. I have a really tough time believing that even an African bushman living as a hunter gatherer would rather have an abstract paint spatter to a figured scene with complex light and composition. The difference in the skilled labor is compellingly hard to ignore.

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Re:Is there such a thing as good taste? by dagw on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:08AM (#29229000)

uneducated person would rather have hanging on their wall for their equally ignorant friends to come and see.

But now we are no longer talking about them as art, but as interior design and decoration.

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