Oh there is no doubt that people have different tastes and what one person finds to be “high art” another person finds to be “shyte flung on a canvas”. I am not an art critic, so my opinion on which is which is irrelevant. However, that mass produced piece of art that Ikea is selling was still produced by an artist. One who is likely just starting out, or who is not known, or who just does not care and makes a massive amount of pieces for sale to whoever is willing to buy them in order to be reproduced on mass. But they were still being created by someone.

On my walls I have a few different pieces of art. A couple I inherited from my grandparents when they passed and they are original pieces painted by a very talented and skilled painter but who was relatively unheard of. I loved them as a child and still do. Other than that the only art I have are photographs taken by local photographers and the sort who have a very skilled eye and talent for photography.

So what we have here is a case of false equivalence. You are equating a mass produced piece of art produced by a person and comparing it to a computer generated piece of stitched together Frankenstein’s Monsteresque stolen assets from art which was created from people without crediting said people nor compensating said people. :thinking:

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