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To: ReformationFan
An artist is a businessperson - they hate it, but it's true - with a product to sell. Sometimes it's on the basis of merit, sometimes not, just like everything else that gets sold. Imagine the temptation of a system where you can force people to buy!
7 posted on 11/24/2013 2:39:29 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

“An artist is a businessperson - they hate it, but it’s true -’

Oh you hit one out of the park. I have a disabled (truly not a fake disability) liberal friend that is an artist. He paints some hideous portraits that supposedly show the human condition. He shows that work in galleries and such in Western Pennsylvania. He gets raves from the critics but seldom sells any of those works. He supports himself by painting generic landscapes that he sells for $100.00 each at flea markets and that he signs with a different name. He can sell 5 of those a week and they take him about 1 to 1.5 hours to paint.

He complains that nobody buys his real art and how he feels like a prostitute selling “over the sofa pictures”

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.


17 posted on 11/24/2013 2:52:32 PM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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