NY Times: Schnabel’s Polaroids.
First commenter says: ”You can give a monkey a Polaroid camera and the images that are produced can look fantastic. So does a dull and grainy image shot by a monkey make it art?” Same argument was made about regular films, too. I used to have this argument with my assistant, frequently. If a piece is beautiful, does the nature of the artist make it illegitimate? Etcetera. Lively lunch conversations. We never did resolve it - I don’t know that it can be resolved. Art is subjective, so it’s no surprise artists would be too.
That being said, these limited mediums in the hands of famous artists plainly show their creativity is a step above the norm; you begin to recognize the volumes of dreck we suffer through daily. There IS a difference, and it IS important to recognize.
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