He got sort of miffed when I suggested that art is what the patron buying it says it is rather than what the artist says it is.
The things he sells are obviously the real art.
People will generally rave about some ones work because that is the exceptable thing do.
>> That is true, the real artist makes things they can sell because people can use them.
Good point.
There is very little produced today in the field of “art” that deserves the classification we normally attribute to the great works of the ages. Instead, the vast majority of today’s true art is rendered through engineering and ironically goes unnoticed despite the creative skill and imagination required for its realization.
The pragmatic complaints expressed within this thread concerning the vapid nature of modern Liberal Arts are legitimate.
The mockery of conservatives that enjoy the simple pleasures in life is juvenile. To hold up liberals as an advanced intellectual form of the species for the affinity to the “Liberal Arts” is asinine.
Yes, the responsibility of paying the tax bills does in fact steal away time from being creative.