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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8051917, member: 120820&quot;]Yes, and I suppose it&#039;s anyway futile to deny that something is art if others are willing to treat it as such, or to insist that they appreciate it on aesthetic rather than conceptual or other grounds.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how an artist such as Van Gogh can get so little recognition (at least, outside of his peer group) while alive, and only later attract such fame. Was it lack of exposure, or does it just take time and consensus for a legend to grow? His work, now at least, does seem quite extraordinarily brilliant, but how much of that is the work itself, and how much is again perhaps the idea - in this case the legend of the artist himself? Would most of us even stop to look at similar works if we saw them in a flea market as the output of some unknown amateur?</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps celebrity and art are more closely tied together than we&#039;d like to admit. Celebrities, whether impressionist painters or TikTok stars, seem to provide a human need to connect and share common points of reference. We only have room for so many celebrities to rally around. It didn&#039;t have to be Van Gogh, Pollock and Charli D&#039;Amelio, but that&#039;s just the way it worked out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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