What quantitative metric do they measure “standards” by?

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Fountain is spoken about in art history classes because it pushed the view of art from craftsmanship to intention. a purposeful arrangement of some mass-produced kitchen tools, for instance, may result in something pleasing to the eye. the artist would be the one who did the arranging, but they did not actually craft the spatulas and spoons and whisks and so on.

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meanwhile the banana (presumably Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan, 2019) is in a similar vein. the banana itself is not regarded as an art piece the way a sculpture is. everyone understands the banana is simply a banana from a grocery store. but Comedian is about affixing this particular produce item in a particular manner in a gallery containing many more “proper” works. the banana’s existence in this space is… well, comedic.

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Art is subjective tho, and aren’t they the ones that don’t think humanities studies/degrees are valuable?

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For the record, I provide this information because I feel like the graphic is absurd. Art is always subjective, and comparing a van Eyck to a Rauschenberg for the explicit purpose of claiming one is “better” than the other isn’t going to work. Those are different sorts of art entirely. An individual may feel that one is more to their taste than the other, but that’s again a subjective decision

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