I agree with you totally. I think this si an excellent answer.

Utter nonsense. Take some art history classes. And no, there are great modern artists who are, in their own genres, the equal of the Baroque masters. As a specialist in Early Modern European culture, I can assure you of that.

I do not!

I do not either !

I hate it. It is just one more lame excuse for lacking the skill of the Baroque masters.

Once again, you know absolutely nothing about the subject. Educated people don't require a curator or critic to tell them what art is, but the uneducated who haven't studied the field do. I know many curators, art historians, and docents, and none of them is "snooty" or "conceited". You are merely insecure and resentful when confronted with people who are better-educated on the subject than you are. That comes through loudly and clearly, sweetie. By the way, "real art" is NOT always "known to the eye the moment it is seen". That's an amazingly ignorant claim.

"Educated people don't require a curator or critic to tell them what art is" as they have already been properly indoctrinated into right-thinking, as in those that have allowed pseudo-intellectuals to tell them what to think, how to think, when to think (and when to shut up and let conceited snobs do the thinking for them)! The very argument that us poor uneducated folk need to be told by your sort what is art, goes further to conclusively prove beyond doubt, just how snooty and conceited docents, art historians, and ex-museum curators truly are, than any other evidence I could offer. As for "better-educated on the subject than you are", in other words those that have been properly indoctrinated at public school and leftist infested colleges in libturd groupthink.Your sort wish to be granted the status of final arbiters of art, or whatever other field you infest. You're merely scared witless that the masses will awake to this particular con job of the intelligentsia (one of many), and start thinking for themselves, at which time control freaks will become unemployable, the reins of power will be ripped from their fingers, and all their glorious ability to influence will wane away.....which is THE worst case scenario for your sort, to be rendered impotent and nugatory...the very stuff of nightmares for every wannabe gatekeeper. Real art is indeed self-evident to those of us able to think and see and understand for ourselves, without any need for silly 'experts' to tell us what we think and see and understand. Your silly sort can oooohhh! and ahhhh! a rusted bicycle pump, a twisted bit of carwreck, Picasso or Pollock crap, a canvas some monkey threw paint at, and yes, pay $50,000 for a Hunter Biden original! Just don't be surprised when the attendance at your ghastly museum or art showing is dismal, or when someone who does attend proclaims your choices as crapart, and when you try to browbeat him/her into submission, they label your silly protests as amazingly ignorant! As the old saying goes: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time! And you can bank on that Snookums!