The Canine Wisdom behind Pavlov’s Art.

Pavlov's Art has nothing to do with art because it is all about the conditioning that Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov used to condition/teach his dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell.

Palvlov's Art has nothing to do with art, and Pavlov’s Law is so bulletproof that it guarantees that once the price of art quadruples then economics prevents the value of art from ever entering the picture.

Pavlov's Law guarantees that at least 80%
of the paintings in most Art Museums are fakes or forgeries.

When the value of a piece of art quadruples then, as a rule, the owner breaks even, only to discover that the value of the original painting no longer enters the picture because Pavlov’s Law guarantees that fakes and forgeries abound to guarantee that at least 80% of all art in museums are forgeries.

 When the value of paintings start to rocket above $100,000, let alone $1 million, then Pavlov's Law makes certain that fakes and forgeries abound so that at least 80% of all art in Museums are forgeries. And what determines the value of forgeries has nothing to do with the value of the original because the value of forgeries has everything to do with the money art-experts get paid to determine which forgery is the best. 

And Pavlov's Law has no exceptions, it even applies to the Mona Lisa. There are so many copies and originals of the Mona Lisa that experts had to more or less take a vote, agree, to choose the painting displayed in the Louvre to be the official “original” Mona Lisa even though they all agree that this Louvre original has been altered, edited and changed so may times that the notion that there is an “original” Mona Lisa is no longer a possibility.

Now that Norman Rockwell’s “originals” are selling for way over $1 million, it is unlikely that most of us will ever see an original painting of his because Pavlov's Law dictates that >80% of his originals in Museums will be forgeries. 

So far there are no forgeries of Norman Adams. But when he dies and prices of his originals quadruple the forgeries of his paintings will abound to satisfy the same Pavlov's Law that already guarantees that at least 80% of Gustav Klimt's and Norman Rockwell's originals in Museums are going to be fakes or forgeries. 

Pavlov’s Law tell us that no artist whose paintings start to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars can defy Pavlov's Law.

Pavlov’s Art.

 Pavlov's Art is anything the unprompted Public would take to be junk or garbage that dogs can be conditioned to react to with salivation,
or tail-wagging good-feelings.

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who conditioned dogs to salivate, not to food but, to the sound of a bell. Any conditioning is always the same Pavlovian reflex that no more needs an intellect than a dog needs to salivate to the sound of a bell, or chase the wheels of a car, or bark up a tree.

Conditioning.

To explain how conditioning works all we need is a dog. It doesn't have to be smart. Indeed the more stupid the dog the clearer is its message.

 The tail-wagging good-feelings a dog can be conditioned to get from the painting of a soup-can is exactly the same good-feelings that “outside-values” have conditioned art-experts to get from the sight of same soup-can painting hung on a museum-wall.  Both are the same: conditioning in which the museum-wall is a cue for good-feelings but only when it has an image of a soup-can on it.

 The museum-wall is the crucial cue. If, by itself, the soup-can image was the cue for tail-wagging then the dog would be very stupid for wagging its tail whenever it sees a soup-can that is not on a museum-wall, like in the garbage can, or outside of museums.

The dog displays these good-feelings with its tail-wagging. If experts had tails then they would also wag it in the same way the dog does, to the same cue.

If the dog shows enthusiasm, pride, to its conditioning, it could then get the equivalent of a college degree. This could be done by conditioning it to get even more good-feelings from a Urinal hung on the museum wall than it did from an image of a soup-can. Now if the dog could only talk it could then tell us about its Canine Wisdom that explains why the Urinal is more good-feelings than the soup-can image because it gives him more intense good-feelings, that art experts, critics, call their real-art.

Reverse-conditioning.

After a dog has been conditioned to get good-feelings from a museum wall -- but only if it has a soup-can image, and even more intense good-feelings (real-art) from a museum-wall if it has a Urinal on it -- then this dog can then be reverse-conditioned to get bad feelings of growling and barking when it leaves the museum. If it could talk to us then it could then use its same Canine Wisdom to explain why the cues on museum-walls need tail-wagging good-feelings, real-art, while trees, grass, fresh-air and flowers outside of museums need barking and growling -- what the same art critics Offensively call non-art. 

SUPER-CONDITIONING

Super-conditioning would be like getting a Doctorate in Art for a dog.

 A dog is super-conditioned when it goes up to anything hung on any wall, in any building, be it a Urinal or painting of any type, shape or form and instantly start barking and growling with a simple cue: a word, “illustrator.”

If such a super-conditioned dog could talk then it could use its Canine Wisdom to explain  why this word “illustrator” can never be an artist no matter what he hangs on the wall – even if it contains more than one Urinal and even more soup-cans. 

And that is Pavlov's Story of the Canine Wisdom that no more needs a brain than a dog needs to salivate to the sound of a bell, chase the wheels of a car, or to bark up a tree.

This story ends with this same Canine Wisdom: (In March 2006) neither the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, or the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art  list any artist that their experts Offensively (with barking and growling) label with the word “illustrator.” This include not only N.C. Wyeth, but also the most globally recognized artist today, Norman Rockwell. It also includes the vacancy of names like Remington and Russell. And the story ends that because of this Offensive cue, the word illustrator, this Canine Wisdom prevents these artists from being called artists , not even if they did paint the plugged up Dada toilets that sewerage often needs to be “real-art,” Pavlov’s Art.

Then there are the twelve Famous Artists who the Public made rich and famous because Creativity was its own same Reward, be it for the artist or the Public. To History these Famous Artists have to be non-artists, because experts offensively call them illustrators with the exact same Canine Wisdom, logic, that would have to make Jesus, and even God, a heathen.

These experts’ word “illustrator” includes the most wildly recognized artist today globally, Norman Rockwell. These Famous Artists (History’s non-artists) are thus buried so deep in History’s black-hole that they could not have existed even if they were what the Public made them: by far the most famous, popular, successful, creative and wealthy professionals that have ever lived. 

-- Geza Palotas

Norman Rockwell painting: The Connoisseur

Is it Atman Art or Pavlov’s Art? 

If the unprompted Public gets the same Reward from the painting as the artist got from painting it, then it is Atman Art.

If the unpromted Public takes it to be junk or garbage then it is Pavlov’s Art.
 

If outside-values pollute the inside-reward of a painting then these outside values will turn any painting into Pavlov’s Art: the art of outside values. 

Uneducated dog.

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PhDs leading an Art Critic to look for soup cans and urinals at the

 NY Metropolitan Museum of Art.