Art need not be attractive, but it must always be intelligent. Look at the masters of any artistic field and you will find they exhibit not only technical mastery but also bring innovation to their field.
Sorry, but no. Art can be created in many ways and for many reason by many different people. Intelligence does not enter into it. What you need is imagination (usually) and creativity. [So speaks a former art student].
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Back on topic, I found some of the funniest 'romance' scenes in DA:I. The developers put a lot of thought into those scenes.
I find that most professional artists don't share this type of snobbery towards art at all either, it's mainly something that armchair artists indulge in.
And the definition of art is very broad precisely to avoid arbitrary gatekeeping.
It's also incredibly influenced by culture and lived experience.
In Europe and NA for example art traditionally in more recent history has been all about mirroring and reflecting reality rooted in religious motives while in Asia for example it has been all about distorting reality.
And there's a lot of bias in the West against any art that steps out of that Renaissance box.
There's no way of objectively measuring this on some grand scale because all art is subjectively experienced on an individual level and affected by so many countless variables.
Not to mention the conditioning that happens on a cultural level.
