In as near as 1980, picture I could not even qualify to be considered in any appraisal of work of art managed to beat other work of art to emerge first position.
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| winner of the lomunidad doggo contest |
What happened?
The judges and the rules change!
Before 1980, evaluation of the art work would consider several intrinsic qualities including color tone, balance, temperature, setting, angle of perception etc as well as rules that were literally set in stone. Once the rules were met, the value increased instantaneously.
Evaluators were highly valued and respected and once they gave their opinion, it was automatically tagged to the work and recognised globally.
The evaluators still exist, no doubt, but the circle of fan base that appreciate their appraisal has dwindling over time and consequently its value is restrictive to a much smaller circle.
New Judges have thrown away the old rule book and adopted public opinion as the baseline.
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| banana on the wall |
This “public opinion” belongs to people in a particular paradigm of make belief reality that continuously pushes across, short-lived information in multiple instances resulting in the adoption of this systematic stream of information as “Trending”.
This continuous stream of overlapping information set in motion a frenzy of activities that prevents the intrinsic qualities of the information to be evaluated by the individual.
To compensate for the failing ability to evaluate information, the individual tends to outsource the evaluation to public opinion.
In simpler terms, it switches to “if they say it is good, then it is good”.
Unfortunately, what is considered to be “good” is always shifting in reference point and it is more influence by emotions than logic and objectivity.
Go Social!