I have been nagging quite a bit here about my inner conflicts between popular success and original quality. I apologize if it has bothered you. It bothers me too. I vastly prefer good art over popular art. I admit I’m even a bit of a snob here. But I have Walter Benjamin on my side. Popular works have simply lost their aura.<\/p>\n
For art to be good, it needs to be very specific and very nuanced. It’s only logical that this limits the audience. For a wide appeal, the work needs to be broad and general.<\/p>\n
But when it comes to judging my own work, I find it difficult to distinguish between good and popular. I create art for other people. I know there is a tendency among some creative people that says you should create for yourself. I simply don’t understand that. I don’t see the point.<\/p>\n
I want other people to see my work. I want them to enjoy my work. And if and when they do, I tend to consider the work good. I’m that shallow. I believe people. So, naturally, any game of ours that reaches the biggest audience is the best game.<\/p>\n
But this conflicts with what I say above, that good art, per definition, cannot be popular.<\/p>\n
Extreme popularity is more or less a guarantee for low quality. But extreme obscurity is by no means a guarantee for high quality. Humans are not that<\/em> different from each other. If a work is good, there generally tends to be a group of people who agree that it is.<\/p>\n But how large can this group become before the consensus on high quality turns into plain popularity, and thus low quality?<\/p>\n And is it really just a question of numbers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been nagging quite a bit here about my inner conflicts between popular success and original quality. I apologize if it has bothered you. It bothers me too. I vastly prefer good art over popular art. I admit I’m even a bit of a snob here. But I have Walter Benjamin on my side. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}