{"id":2366,"date":"2014-11-30T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2014-11-30T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T18:17:14","slug":"aesthetics-have-nothing-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/2014\/11\/30\/aesthetics-have-nothing-to-do-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAesthetics Have Nothing to Do with It.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It really doesn’t get any more obvious\u00a0than everything you’ll read in this article, written by James B. Stewart for the “Business Day” section of the New York Times under\u00a0the sub-heading “Common Sense,” starting with the title:<\/p>\n

With Art, Investing in Genius<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s just a taste:<\/p>\n

The soaring prices are being driven by market forces rather than any aesthetic or artistic awakening, Professor Galenson said. \u201cAesthetics have nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does matter, Professor Galenson\u2019s research suggests, is innovation by the artist. \u201cIt\u2019s really incredibly simple,\u201d he said. \u201cValuable paintings are innovative. Valuable artists are innovators. C\u00e9zanne did his most influential work at the very end of his career, Picasso at the very beginning, when he invented Cubism. Nineteen sixty-two is when Warhol started using mechanical reproductions and photography and reinvented modern art. His works from the 1960s are the very most expensive. Those from the 1980s are much less.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Timely words, considering what I just posted yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In essence, our modern culture boasts of millions invested on aesthetics that don’t matter<\/em> and hollow innovation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, little can be done to\u00a0charlatan vampires that roam freely in the sun.<\/p>\n

* Photo by\u00a0Andrew Gombert\/European Pressphoto Agency, pulled from the New York Times website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nowadays the charlatans say it straight to your face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-responses","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanartistinrome.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}