>>3951448It does mean something, the pretension of meaning in otherwise banal senseless works.
Selling works that cannot pull their weight by their medium alone and need meta narratives or strong advertising.
It gets tricky when this is used in visual works but still can apply depending on the work, if that picture is in a museum next to works that took massive amounts of time and skill then the context makes the item have another meta narrative that might confuse some.
This has also applied, perhaps wrongly, to works with actual meaning and intention behind them but due to culture shock or the author being obtuse the reading of it becomes much harder than usual.
Pretentiousness is a fact in works made to experiment with style over substance but are especially much more egregious when such things are pushed as integral pieces, this usually done in modern and post-modern times to launder money by the jew museum mafia.
