Confirmation bias, herding, and Social Desirability Bias account for over half the post-1900 art in museums. Subtle aesthetic merit? Bah.
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Yes. Like saying that a paper which uses Special Relativity is greater than Einstein's original papers (i.e., it's wrong).
What makes great painters great is (in part) that they introduce - discover isn't too strong a word - new techniques.
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Yes, I understand that history is very important to many art appreciators. That's why many think modern art is "great".
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It's direct appreciation that Smith produced far more lasting insight than did his modern, superficially better counterparts
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