see for yourself

art is personal

and what qualifies or disqualifies something as art is all up to you

nobody, and I mean nobody, has any business telling you what you should or shouldn’t like

sure, there are people in the business / art world / who get paid to tell you what’s good and what isn’t

but if I were you, I wouldn’t listen to them

I’d say: see for yourself...!

liking or not liking something is a great starting point

but that’s all it is

otherwise we’re just talking about decoration

any so-called work of art begs for your attention

and this is where you get to decide if the work qualifies as art

not through liking or dis-liking, but through the time-consuming work of paying attention and just kinda chewing on it

art appreciation just means taking the thing in

paying attention to it

chewing on it

looking at it, thinking about it, feeling into it, and letting your intuition lead you around all of that thinking and seeing and feeling

you don’t need good taste to do this

sure, you need some time and patience

but literally, this IS good taste

liking a piece isn’t the same as resonating with it

(or really, having it resonate with you)

resonance is something of a full-body / full-mind experience

it’s what a serious tasting lets you in for

real art is just an invitation to that experience

a piece will either resonate — or it won’t

but sometimes that piece simply can’t deliver

(because no matter what — it’s just not art)

but you can’t know that unless you give it a really good tasting

nobody can do it for you

which makes looking at art more like eating

or at least, munching

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