Contemporary Paintings – Who Gets to Say What ‘Contemporary’ Means?
The art establishment is not the sole determiner of what contemporary art is. Just writing about the term “contemporary paintings” makes me cringe because it conjures up a type of art snob with nose in the air as they speak knowingly about what they call fine art. For I admit to being one of those people who loves art, who thinks she can tell the authentic from the nice, and certainly can identify the awful and shallow. But I abhor the official snobbery of the art establishment, those who would declare themselves arbitraters of what is art and what is not. And I know I am not alone.