Blogs McGooch wrote:
I think what the OP was trying to get at was making a distinction between favorite and best. An example would be someone saying "I think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the best Kanye album but my personal favorite is Late Registration." I think that's the mentality OP was trying to get at.
I think so as well. Also....
Objectivity is hard to define, but there is such a thing as an objectively bad piece of art.
I think part of it is a set of standards and rules we as a society collectively decide on. You can also define the talent it took to produce a simple line and the talent it took to create the Mona Lisa. One is objectively better than the other.
You can like something and still be aware that something else is better. I always use this example, but I don't enjoy The Beatles music, but I acknowledge that it is a personal taste of mine and has nothing to do with the quality of music they present.
Taste in art is subjective, and there will always exist some amount of bias in reviews and critiques of art, but the best reviewers and critics make an effort to separate their bias from the review/critique. Quality of art, however, is not subjective, at the very least its not entirely subjective.