"What do we lose by avoiding the experience of "bad" art?"
How can one learn to appreciate the good, without also experiencing the bad?
Using these appointed critics influences society towards what they consider to be good art, which creates a trend of people selectively looking at just what the critics consider good. This jades society to the art, until a very elitist trend has been started, only the best of that art field is viewed, and what was once 'good' is now viewed as bad. This puts once popular artists out of work, and while it improves the overall quality of the field, while drastically decreasing the number of artists in that field. The influence of the critics also creates a trend towards their personal tastes, making other fields wither and struggle, though this is typically balanced by the diversity of critics.
Following this train of reasoning, do you think it could be said that it is the critics who control the trends and direction of the arts, rather than the artists themselves?
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