>>2948032>what is art?Ok. The contemporary art scene is basically just a bunch of opportunistic individualists playing games of networking and self-promoting in order to supply an unregulated, speculative marketplace for rich people, where the elites can exercise their power by playing their own vacuous games of defining art, good taste and quality. This cycle is reinforced by government institutions in the form of academia, where the middle class use art as an interpretation platform to justify their pattern recognising skills acquired by indebting themselves for life.
So, the relationship between the properties of an artwork and the concept of art is arbitrary and 100% determined by the given social power structure. Since post-modernism and conceptualism, artists have consistently destabilised and deconstructed previously established understandings of aesthetic value, paving way for this bourgeois circle jerk they've always tried to undermine.
