Art is a circle jerk. Often, anyway.Or, to rephrase, the art WORLD (can someone teach me to bold things, please?) is a circle jerk, and especially the market for high art.The thing I really take issue with is when posts like this original one (I been chatting with the OP, and he and I had a great discussion, too) allow the art circle jerk to get in the way of them experiencing and enjoying some great work, or mistake the circle jerk for the value of the work itself. I spent the Cheap NFL Jerseys time since I posted talking with people about this, and I agree that the exchange value part of this bit, with a painting being sold for so much because of its place in history and an out of control art market, is pretty weird and bizarre. But the thing is, when posts on here take that art world craziness as the important thing and close themselves off to this type of work, I think they missing out. And also, in a place that is generally pretty encouraging of artistic types (which is part of what I love about Reddit), there a pretty strong narrative against minimalist and expressionist works, which is really unfair in my reckoning.Setting up a reactive anti art circle jerk in response to the art circle jerk, in answer to your question, is what we should try to avoid.In fact, I fairly sure Rothko would agree with your assessment that the historical valuation isn much to stand on. The irony is works like this one, whose subject matter and evaluation were meant to be based in the present, in the interaction between the body and an art object in the same space, have been absorbed into a totally historical art market that completely breaks from that.I can agree at all with your assessment that works like this one take no skill whatsoever, both as an artist and as someone who has studied works like this one for a long time. Here the thing: the forms are simple, the "subject matter," if you want to call it that, as well. But, as far as the skill taken to achieve the edge quality of the forms in a painting like this one, the understanding of color needed to achieve works like any of Rothko and the understanding of proportion needed in cheap jerseys order to make this painting do what it does (going back to that interaction with the body wholesale jerseys I was speaking about) is pretty sophisticated. This is part of why, as other people have stated Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys in this post, a lot of the abstract painters also possessed considerable skill at painting figuratively. So the craft valuation that you saying isn there for works like this one, and may be in more figurative paintings, I would contend really is there, it just isn expressed in rendering or exotic form.I appreciate the nuance in what you trying to say, and I try as best as I can to meet with the thoughts of others on works like this. As well, like what you like: that what is important.