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<blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 3129503" data-attributes="member: 10397">Not quite...I do not feel anyone's opinion is ignorant. On the contrary, I feel everyones opinions are very valid, and that in expressing our opinions we must remember that. I take exception to people claiming their opinions of a specific work of art are absolute facts, and that anyone who feels that a work they label &quot;bad&quot; is simply incapable of distinguishing &quot;good&quot; from &quot;bad&quot;, because in actuallity the &quot;good&quot; and &quot;bad&quot; of a work of art is a matter of individual experience. &nbsp;Probably because art is not empirical in nature. its emotional, mental, intuitive and subjective. &nbsp;I agree. However, this also means that it is not an objective proccess. If their is an absolute, objective factual standard by which artisitic works are measured, it wouldnt change with time. If it does, then it is, as I believe, simply a group of commonly held subjective opinions.Which doesnt mean it isnt useful, or that it doesnt have weight, but it does mean it isnt the same thing as, for instance, the fact that an action creates and oposite and equal reaction.&nbsp;Well, professional &quot;critics&quot; do it all the time, and people take them seriously. But wether its taken seriously or not doesnt make it any less distasteful to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merlion, post: 3129503, member: 10397"] Not quite...I do not feel anyone's opinion is ignorant. On the contrary, I feel everyones opinions are very valid, and that in expressing our opinions we must remember that. I take exception to people claiming their opinions of a specific work of art are absolute facts, and that anyone who feels that a work they label "bad" is simply incapable of distinguishing "good" from "bad", because in actuallity the "good" and "bad" of a work of art is a matter of individual experience. Probably because art is not empirical in nature. its emotional, mental, intuitive and subjective. I agree. However, this also means that it is not an objective proccess. If their is an absolute, objective factual standard by which artisitic works are measured, it wouldnt change with time. If it does, then it is, as I believe, simply a group of commonly held subjective opinions. Which doesnt mean it isnt useful, or that it doesnt have weight, but it does mean it isnt the same thing as, for instance, the fact that an action creates and oposite and equal reaction. Well, professional "critics" do it all the time, and people take them seriously. But wether its taken seriously or not doesnt make it any less distasteful to me. [/QUOTE]

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