Some art collectors and owners view themselves as elite. They look down upon newcomers who may have less experience. Because some owners have reputations in the art world, they are more likely to be sold pieces from high-end galleries. Gallery owners find this type of snob desirable clientele.
Metaphysical art snobs believe that every piece of art needs to have a symbolic meaning or message. The metaphysical art snob must find a message or symbol hidden somewhere within the subject matter to enjoy it. What fun is that? It can be even more upsetting when they review a piece you spent time creating as the artist or collecting and tell you it holds no value because they cannot derive meaning from it.
We are all aware of the stereotype that students studying art tend to be one of the snobbiest groups. Although nothing is universally true, some students could be easily accused of elitism due to their art views. These students tend to be from rich families or have parents that are artists. Art students with dreams of becoming rich in art should take a look at our breakdown of salaries of artists. With elitism in mind, students tend to act like know-it-alls who, in fact, may not know that much.
They may have had more exposure to art, having visited many museums and galleries worldwide, but may not be talented artists themselves. The main characteristic of an art student snob is that they think they know it all.
To them, no one in the room is as qualified to be creating or studying painting, photography, sculpting, or other fine art. They have no desire to teach their classmates about art either. They just come from a family of art snobs. They feel that that is reason enough to become an art snob themselves without having any real knowledge of art.
There is no fun in being in an elite art group if just anyone can get in. These snobs tend to be traditionalists. Instead, they prefer their traditional mediums as the only true artforms.
Glasswork is a commonly looked down-upon medium by these sorts of snobs. They believe that glass should not be considered a good art form. Acrylic snobs are another type of material snob. Often, these sorts of snobs are other artists, not collectors.
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Here, the mischievous aesthetic conflicts keep you constantly off-balance, constantly recalibrating your expectations, constantly engaged, and your attention never wanders to tea and cake. Picasso also made confrontation his theme — his African mask-wearing prostitutes staring directly at the viewer seem to demand a response Credit: Pablo Picasso. Probably worth a million! You see both works totally differently. The paintings do not change, but our way of seeing them does.
Which is why the giddy blast of Confrontation, an exhibition that demands not passive consumption but active participation, that challenges traditional divisions between high and low art and that has such a good time doing it, has such a salutary, oxygenating effect. In the context of an increasingly unstable world, it can be easy to fall prey to paralysis regarding art; it can all seem so futile, so much pretty fiddling while Rome burns.
But the exothermic, oppositional approach of Confrontation has, among all its other pleasures, the effect of reminding us how vital art is, how personal and yet how much an expression of participation in our collective humanity it is. They glance at each other and laugh.
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