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How to tell when your art is bad

11 March 2025

Good (print) art has to pass these three tests;

The across the room test.
The 2-meters away test.
The up-close test.

If the art is interesting and engaging at all three distances then it has potential to be good art.

I love this, in the most part because trying to apply objective rules to judge “art” is inherently amusing, but also because it’s not, you know, wrong.

Via Russell Davies

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