Yes It Is Easy to Judge Art, Just Like Written or Acted Works

(from twitter ‘dispute’)

I can teach anyone to evaluate art. This is the overview of the method from the course presentation. With practice you can judge any work, set of works, movement, civilizational works, and speak of them intelligently and recognize when you must say “i don’t know enough” on one hand, and ‘i like it’ (or not) on the other. Art is a craft like any other. You may not like Shakespeare, Joyce (understandably), Hemmingway, or Dickens (oddly) or Michener, Ludlum, Forsythe, or the female equivalent, any other set of authors, but it’s possible to intelligently say why; same for food; same for art. Otherwise, you’re just saying “i don’t like math” and ” i like comedies”. Because how you feel about art is a measure of YOU, not the art.