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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
only an idiot presumes to know how to judge scientific research without deep knowledge of the subject. In art, a purely personal judgement of "I like it," or "I don't like it," is given weight regardless of who says it.
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I think that's true and is in many ways one of art's greatest virtues: the idea that someone can walk into a gallery with no knowledge of art, see a Caravaggio or a Van Gogh and be utterly overwhelmed by it. But does the fact that that same person is likely to look at Picasso's Guernica and be completely unmoved by it make Picasso any less of an artist?