@HillariaBankz@BusterScher The difference is that Picasso could actually draw and paint with extraordinary technical mastery before developing Cubism.
His early academic paintings, understanding of anatomy, perspective, composition, and proportion. His later distortions were deliberate artistic choices.
@Dontbotherme069@BusterScher By that logic, every overpriced luxury product, speculative asset, or collectible automatically becomes exceptional simply because a wealthy buyer paid an absurd amount for it.
The art market is particularly vulnerable to speculation, status signaling, and opaque transactions.
@Dontbotherme069@BusterScher You’re confusing market price with artistic value.
Someone paying $2 million establishes a transaction price. It doesn’t establish that the object possesses $2 million worth of artistic merit.