[Revolting cat!]

This may be a rhetorical question, but if it's so easy to detect bad art in painting, why is it so hard for us to do it in other art forms such as literature, cinema, music? I mean, say something negative about Tom Clancy ("the most successful bad writer since James Fenimore Cooper"", according to Chris Buckley), or Hairy Potty or the Star Trek kitsch, or, heaven forbid, about Eddie (Van Halen, whodya think?) and you're marked on this forum as an "elitist" with Communist sympathies. Yeah, Eddie, the greatest musician since Mozart!

[Crawdad]

I don't know about that other stuff, but you're right abour Eddie Van Halen.

[Billthedrill]

I'll bet you don't like the drum solo in "In A Gadda Da Vida" either. Commie.

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . if it's so easy to detect bad art in painting, why is it so hard for us to do it in other art forms such as literature, cinema, music?

Nah . . . it's just easy in this case.

My favorite bad musician is P.D.Q. Bach . . .

[GraceCoolidge]

[I]f it's so easy to detect bad art in painting, why is it so hard for us to do it in other art forms such as literature, cinema, music? I mean, say something negative about Tom Clancy ("the most successful bad writer since James Fenimore Cooper"", according to Chris Buckley), or Hairy Potty or the Star Trek kitsch, or, heaven forbid, about Eddie (Van Halen, whodya think?) and you're marked on this forum as an "elitist" with Communist sympathies. Yeah, Eddie, the greatest musician since Mozart!

I think there is a difference. What drives me crazy are the Kinkade fans who insist that his work is capital A "art," and going to be a collector's item, a masterpiece, etc. I like some pop culture/kitsch type things, but I don't claim they are an investment. I think it is more about the attitude of the purchaser. I don't display my Harry Potter books in order to convince visitors that I am a literary genius. I read them because I enjoy them. They aren't on display. So I believe it is the combination of displaying the "art" (something you don't do with books, music, cinema, usually) along with the insistence of some fans that Kinkade is the world's most important artist. I'd say he is among the world's marketing greats, but that's about it. But if people enjoy Kinkade and want to hang his work on every surface in their home, I say go for it-- just don't try to tell me you're doing it because he is an Important Artist, or this is an investment.

[Denver Ditdat]

Don't forget the boringly pretentious Rush (the band, not the talkshow host).

[rlmorel]

"...or, heaven forbid, about Eddie (Van Halen, whodya think?) and you're marked on this forum as an "elitist" with Communist sympathies. Yeah, Eddie, the greatest musician since Mozart!"

"Now, where did I leave my guitar..."

[Lx]

Hey, I like Eddie, three lead singers can't be wrong.

Next thing you know he's gonna do something pretentious like naming his kid Wolfgang...