What, for you, is good art? What for you is great art?

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I do not think there is good, great or bad Art.

There is the Art that I personally like and the Art I don't like, but that does not make it good, great or bad Art.

There is the Art that sells and the Art that does not sell, but that does not make it bad Art, just unsaleable.

There is Art that challenges us and Art that does not.

Art is Art, is never good or bad, it is just Art.

We call some Art great because it has lasted so long, because it is 500 years old and survived is amazing but that in itself does not make it great Art.

Art that brings outrageous prices in an Auction Houses does not make it great Art, it makes it Art that someone was prepared to pay a lot of money for, nothing else.

What we like and don't like is a very different thing because prejudices, likes and dislikes make us use words like good, great or bad Art, but really it is just our opinion.

I think Picasso’s Art is great Art, others think it is terrible Art.

Many think the Mona Lisa is great Art, I think it is an average portrait of a young woman.

Many think Andy Warhol’s Art is great Art, I think it is factory Art, but of course that is just my opinion.

Who can make the statement of what is good, great or bad art?

An academic who has never painted a painting, an Art critic, a professor in an Art school, a curator in a major museum or Gallery, a prominent Artist or some learned Art historian?

They all have their opinions and in the end that is what it is, just an opinion, a label someone decided to put on a piece of Art.

I think the statement that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, is the greatest truth about Art.

If you love a painting wonderful, if you hate it that’s your right, but either way it does not make it good, great or bad Art.

Art is always Art.