Theme: Truth

DEFINING AND MEASURING THE QUALITY OF ARTS

High art contains moral judgments. This is one of the reasons Marxists proposed ‘design’ (Rothko for example) replace ‘art’.

For example, Monet’s Water Lillies are a technological innovation (which we understand today in scientific terms), and is due its place in history for that reason as good art.

However, his subject matter lacks moral judgments. And therefore lacks the status of high art. Jackson Pollock again, produces design, not art. His design may quality as an innovation, but it is still design, not high art.

Some of the driving force for design over art was the increase in the size of the population that desired to possess art, which meant that more had to be produced to fill demand, and that the price had to drop. The rest is attributable to the change in content which was a marxist initiative, and remains so. Value judgements are an impediment to universalism and socialism.

But how can we objectively analyze art?

LETS LOOK AT HOW TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF ART.

1) Craft (narrative, representation)

2) Design (poetry, aesthetic pleasure)

3) Innovation (novelty, innovation, )

And finally:

4) Content (Mythology, Human experience, ‘truth’, political, judgments)

Let us set the center to 0, and the limit 255 on each axis.

Then lets assign R, G, B to Craft, Design, and Innovation, then luminosity to Content.

If we plot each work of any category of art using relative comparisons (point-testing) on that axis, and connect the four dots, we will be able to generate a sort of ‘surface area’ of the art that can be represented not only in the units covered, but also as an RGB color.

Now the problem in this analysis is whether the content is ‘true’ (aristocratic) or ‘false’(socialist). There are multiple means of handling this such as using only the RGB/Craft,Design,Innovation axis and making axis 4 vertical “up” for aristocracy, and “down” for content.

So, now we can create a sort of six sided diamond with white as the maximum socialist(feminist and equalitarian) or aristocratic(familialist and egalitarian) ethics.

And yes, it is possible to do this pretty easily if you use enough samples of art.

(I have, I know – as anyone who has used SCRUM will tell you, with enough samples relative indexing becomes very easy and accurate.)