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Comment by sneak

2 days ago

Just because art is challenging and unpredictable doesn’t mean it’s interned to make you suffer.

Is Giger’s art created to cause suffering? How about Beksiński’s paintings? The emotions they invoke are not happiness or joy, but neither are they purely dread or loathing.

Aesthetic pursuit isn’t solely (or even primarily) about the emotions it conjures in the consumer.

Remember: the customer is always right in matters of taste.