$110,500,000 at auction

How we talking about Basquiat the Nigger?

My bad, I thought we meant someone else.

You sound like a redditor. Go back.

quality > quantity

So you argue that people got less gifted over time?

Yes.
If you want you can count Caravaggio belonging to the 10% who's not worse (not that he's a particularly strong draughtsman), but if you open up any book on Renaissance art you will find the majority of artists in there are absolutely garbage by today's standards (from a technical perspective).

You just went from
>your average comic book artist is better than 90% of the ''''masters'''' from the Renaissance.
straight to
>there are ten times more Italians alive.
Which shows about how stupid your argumentation is.

>not that he's a particularly strong draughtsman
Mate, if you ever manage to get away with murder just because you can paint so good, let me know. Same goes for when you are able to make a living of your art (whilst not being some pr whore)

>if you can't see the artist's name, then this art thing isn't for you
oh I'm sorry, I'll just hop right on the bandwagon then

here's a test for your ability to determine great art: determine which one of these works is the greatest piece through only using your own reasoning to support why the "better one" is superior. you can look them up if you want.

>Using reasoning
Wow, who needs to actually look at art.

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