By the standards of the day I think Vincent Van Gogh was judged to be deficient in technical facility and yet we respond to the soul of his work and the energy of his work and believe that he was a great artist. The hands on his figures for example, are not anatomically correct rendering of human hands. They are tortured, knotted vines with a sometimes tenuous or desperate hold on life. It is that very poetry of life in visual form we respond to in a painting. In one sense virtually anyone behind a good camera is a great technician. That cannot mean that just anyone with the ability to record a scene is a great artist. The art of the mundane can take you only so far before you crave the nourishing pulse of deeper emotions.