On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Michael Brady < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:22 PM, joseph berg wrote: >> >> > As the commodification of art increases, >> >> Is art in fact being "commodified," and if so, how can you measure it in >> order >> to say it is increasing? This is an unsubstantiated assertion. >> >> > isn't there a shift where the creative needs of the artist become >> subservient to what ultimately becomes the whims of the >> consumers/audience? >> >> Are you asserting that there is such a shift? Then say so, rather than >> insinuating it with a negative question. >> >> Where is this shift occurring? >> What are "creative needs of the artist"? >> How do the artist's "needs" become "subservient" to the "whims" of an >> abstract >> collective entity? >> > > In the future, won't the following become a luxury of luxuries?: > > - I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. > > Pablo Picasso > - By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block. Abe Ajay <http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=1417>
