Granted, I also can’t stand their art style, but you just described every piece of decorative art. The only requirement of art is for someone to say it is.
Unique art is a statement. Pop figures and the like are deliberately uniformly derivative ripoffs of something else that is actually art.
So to liken it to food, real art is a delicious meal, and Pops are the digested remains of what once was a delicious meal, homogenized in to the always familiar shit, ready for the brainless flies to buzz around.
Granted, I also can’t stand their art style, but you just described every piece of decorative art. The only requirement of art is for someone to say it is.
Unique art is a statement. Pop figures and the like are deliberately uniformly derivative ripoffs of something else that is actually art.
So to liken it to food, real art is a delicious meal, and Pops are the digested remains of what once was a delicious meal, homogenized in to the always familiar shit, ready for the brainless flies to buzz around.