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A picture of a man in a pool posing for a group photo with a number of women. The man holds a ball and wears water polo headgear. Some of the women also wear water polo headgear, others have only swimming caps.
The image has the caption:
Flavor Flav sponsors the women’s water polo team after learning some athletes have 2nd and 3rd jobs.
@femalequotient
In May, US polo team captain Maggie Steffens asked for financial help on Instagram. Flavor Flav – William Jonathan Drayton Jr – answered the call: “As a girl dad and supporter of all women’s sports, imma personally sponsor you, my girl, whatever you need. And imma sponsor the whole team.”
Flav signed a five-year sponsorship deal to “elevate the visibility and excitement surrounding water polo in the United States.” The sponsorship includes personal appearances and financial contributions to help with equipment, facilities, and anything else they need. This is how it’s done 👏
— The Female Quotient
Any art that could even vaguely fall into the “outsider” catagory will be treated like this. We’re so conditioned to apply the same “good or bad” metric to everything in the same way, even if that means you end up comparing apples to oranges. Critiquing Vincent Namatjira’s work by the standard of more “traditional” photorealistic portraits is a bad faith comparison. It’s boiling “art” down into just colors and shapes with no regard for context or meaning.
Taken to a not-too-illogical extreme, that same line of thinking would say that Dalí was a subpar artist who couldn’t even paint a normal clock.