Somebody has to connect with the art for it to be art. At least one person.
Only exception is a castaway stuck decades in a desert island that sings for the trees. Guaranteed it´s good art.
Definition of Great Art: Art that persists in time. People keep exposing to it and talking (good or bad) about it.
Great artists are at least niche artist. Those who reach mainstream is for for a combination of vision & work and for being useful. With "useful" I mean that they happen to be in synch with a kind of spiritual zeitgeist that needs to be expressed in public.
All great artists find an audience, if they keep going (even if they don´t, like Rulfo). Maybe they find it post mortem (Kafka, Pessoa). But they do. I like to think that.
I´m gonna think aloud:
Somebody has to connect with the art for it to be art. At least one person.
Only exception is a castaway stuck decades in a desert island that sings for the trees. Guaranteed it´s good art.
Definition of Great Art: Art that persists in time. People keep exposing to it and talking (good or bad) about it.
Great artists are at least niche artist. Those who reach mainstream is for for a combination of vision & work and for being useful. With "useful" I mean that they happen to be in synch with a kind of spiritual zeitgeist that needs to be expressed in public.
All great artists find an audience, if they keep going (even if they don´t, like Rulfo). Maybe they find it post mortem (Kafka, Pessoa). But they do. I like to think that.