Art, Artists, and Fate
A few months back I came across a small article that casually mentioned that there are two types of arts - popular art and high art. Popular art is the one that the masses enjoy. Art that is being created at this very moment and consumed by the people in their revelry, as soon as it is born. Art that is accepted in the present is what we call popular art and the practitioners of it as artists. Then again, somewhere in an old winter shack, away from everything he holds dear, a man is creating something that will change the perception of human vision towards a particular art form by forever expanding the boundaries of our knowledge and exposing us to horizons that we never thought existed. That is what we will come to call as high art. However, the path that it will follow is not easy at all. It will not be readily accepted by the experts and connoisseurs because it challenges every notion of the textbook version of the art form. It will not be liked by the public because they alwa...