is there some type of committee who determines if a person is a talented painter?

Question

and where did they get that authority? like who deemed picaso, renoir, rothko, so great. was it a majority vote or something?

how long has this committee been in effect.

where would an aspiring painter begin this journey?

Answer 1

Yes. It is called the Committee of Art Appreciation and is made up of numerous "appreciators" who purchase works of art for outrageous amounts of cash!

Talent is determined by whether or not someone else thinks you are talented and chooses to buy your work. Either now - or later, whatever the case may be.......

Answer 2

The only formal process for judging art is in competitions and schools.The rest, with the possible exception of praise from other artists, is essentially just opinion.

You'd certainly think there was some sort of hierarchy of artistic justice, of vast intellects, knowledge and taste, reading the tides of verbosity from the media and the art industry.

Generally modern artistic merit is deemed such by whatever collection of affluent unemployables is running the exhibitions/galleries/critics circus.

In the days of the art patrons, (pre people owning pet artists) it was pure personal taste, usually of educated or rich people who could impose their tastes on the public and history regarding who was known as a good artist.

Some artists, like Da Vinci, Renoir, Michelangelo and others were just so good there was no point in arguing about their talent, and even Da Vinci and Michelangelo needed sponsors.

When the middle class decided it didn't know about art but knew what it was prepared to pay for, an industry was created to encourage sales, rather than art. Naturally, the praise tends to go where the money is. Negative criticism, banal as it usually is, saying someone isn't a great artist, seems to vary between quoting from art appreciation books and personal attacks.

Answer 3

No, art critics who go to see an artists showings and write about have some authority but it isn't official. The publics reaction to your efforts is the best way to tell. If you sell. This isn't always the case many great artists died very poor, just plain ahead of their time. Remember this motto it's latin: "Ars gratia Ars"....(Art for arts sake).....good luck

Answer 4

Yes,
Benjamin, George, Andrew, and Teddy hopefully lot's of them !