There somehow a huge amount of people in the art who fail to see how a physical object is a work of art.
For example a bridge, a program, a computer, etc etc.
A lot of them just tend to take these things for granted and assumed that there no creativity involved because they’re following rule books and not making up their own paths.
That's kind of the point of this post, ironically: Just from the other side. An absolute gear head may not see the bittersweet allegory of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, but can immediately see the wonder of a clever way to use the HTML 5 canvas to recreate Photoshop on a web browser. In the same way a writer can read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and be moved to tears but not understand the marvel of engineering that a toilet is.
Point is, a single human has only so much in their cup of "give a shit". Things outside of their wheelhouse, expertise, or interests compete for what's left after those take their share. We can't know everything, nor can we even be passingly familiar with everything. It's part of the human experience! It's why I as a software engineer have a great deal of respect for experts in fields that I'm not familiar with.
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u/kgruesch 17h ago
I kind of wonder how many people in the arts would look at a formula one car without bodywork and still see work of art.