![]() As a result it's also opened for me doors into other people and times. I find I don't need to judge art to understand or enjoy it, and in fact, just the opposite - bringing no judgement or value system into my encounter with the art has really opened up the world to me, and made it easier for me to find my way in to more art from more cultures and times, not just my own social sphere or the dominant popular notions of my formative community and peer experiences. They tell us about the people or the communities or the institutions doing the judging, but they don't tell us about the art. They're not in the art, they're not of the art, they don't illuminate the art or tell us anything about the art, and they don't better help us enter and experience the are or get closer to the artist - they're imposed from the outside by people for whatever psychological needs those people making the judgements have. I think good and bad, superior and inferior are pretty much irrelevant concepts when it comes to art. One who tends to rebuff, avoid, or ignore those regarded as inferior or one who has an offensive air of superiority in matters of knowledge or taste."īut I don't regard any music as superior or inferior, and I don't regard any person superior or inferior for the music they listen to. Per Merriam Webster a snob is : "one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those regarded as social superiors or
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