What is "Fine Art"?

Tichy was a recluse. When they showed his work in a gallery, it was filthy rubbish. How does someone's work turn from worthless to fine art?
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013...ng-tom-photographer-and-his-cardboard-camera/

 

Perhaps the term "Fine Art" photography is utterly misleading then - it should be "High Craft" Photography instead, as it is usually applied to the work of disciples of St. Ansel and St. Weston who were nothing if not consummate craftsmen and consummate self-promoters.

 

You have it!
High Craft it is.

 

Despite his slothfulness, he apparently understood marketing. From the article:
Tichý famously once said, “First of all, you have to have a bad camera”, and, “If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.”

 

FINE ART is SIGNIFICANT FORM.