06-25-2018, 10:50 PM
It seems a critic should have a sophisticated scope of popular and so-called highbrow standards, and then the criticism should be just as much an aesthetic risk and intellectual speculation or expression as the art it's evaluating. Artists, philosophers and critics have been clashing forever, it's part of the experience, the drive. Each operating within his own standards and personal and social mythology. Piss-Christ, what's so impressive about that? Urine is relatively harmless. If he had made a whole Nativity scene out of fecal matter, that might have been more tasteful and appropriate to that particular art scene.