Hi Jeralina
In the long run time is the implacable judge. Every age has its own judges in the form of collectors, art promoters of one kind or another; gallery owners.museum curators, critics, historians artist organizations, art magazine editors etc. All of this specialist in one way or another bring forth what they consider worth looking at and put it to the consideration of the public, but what enter the canon in the end is what survives the test of time (the judgement of successive generations), There are plenty of works that in their own day were put forth as great works of art and time has forgotten them, and also many that were unappreciated and unknown in their own day and today are very much part of the canon, and example of this is van Gogh. I will encourage you to think why that is because that reflection would certainly lead you to some interesting reflections.
