Cristobal Senior
Feb 9, 2008 12:41 AM GMT
Ms. Miller is deeply confused about the concept and definition of Art, which is certainly not about trinket making and fantasy jewelry designs. Art is about conveying in the highest esthetical form visions and messages about the salient aspects of human life and nature. Artists shoudn't be afraid of sales because good art is not made for sale but to be meditated upon and for the stimulation of the spirit. That artists need an income? Yes they do but there are many ways of providing this income in an advanced civilized society that pursues higher forms of living. And if worse comes to worst, good art will always "sell" easily.
Here is my response. I tried to be nice but this kind of thinking is exactly why many artists and artisans are afraid to or don't know how to make a living doing what they love. "Art" or "art" is not some sort of competition about who can be the most transcendental or suffer the most
The previous comment ruffles my feathers a bit. There shouldn't be a competition about what is "real" art (or art with a capital "A"). We are all creating and need to support each other in that endeavor. Being creative and making money is not a bad thing or selling out. It is doing what you love and making a living. Until all creative people stop judging and start supporting each other, how can we expect the rest of society to support the arts as well? This is exactly why artist is the only profession with the word "starving" in front of it. "Artists shouldn't be afraid of sales because good art is not made for sale but to be meditated upon and for the stimulation of the spirit." That is nice, but it hard to stimulate a spirit when you can't pay your rent. All the "great artists" that we know today, Picasso, Rembrandt, van Gogh are only known to us because they or someone else marketed and sold their work.
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