Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Technical merit defines quality. Evokation of emotion - good or bad - defines something else.So ... what you are saying is that to that person, that art is superior, because it has more emotional value.
Or are you saying that we cannot value art for its power to evoke emotion, but only for its technical merit? That a Dutch Master (for example) will always and forever be "better" and "more quality" than folk art, no matter how powerfully that art moves you?
There are, for example, some bands I very much dislike the sound of. At the same time, however, I willingly concede that much of their music is of excellent technical quality and is both written and played at a high degree of musical skill and mastery.
Quality does not equate to emotional response, or enjoyment, or pleasure given/received.
Technical quality is technical quality regardless of the style.Wouldn't this always and forever privilege the canon of western-style art that has been taught?
Deliberately breaking the rules can sometimes result in examples of high technical quality, where someone in effect expands the techniques of something or even invents a new one.Or are you saying that we cannot value the expertise in someone who understands how to make great art, but is deliberately breaking the rules?
Indeed. The same is true of the technical merit of a piece of art or a song, or the quality of parts and construction used in a car: whether you like the end result or not, you can't argue with the fact that merit - that quality - exists.If today's temperature is 98 degrees, and yesterday it was 80 degrees, then today it is HOTTER than yesterday. The temperature is, quite literally, a fact that is dictated to you. You can't argue with it.