On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's ridiculous to insist that because taste in art is subjective it is > also > unique to such an extent that others don't share it. People of a given > locale, > time, culture tend to have much more in common than they themselves might > think. > Advertisers and product managers devote much time and money discovering > how > those individual subjective tastes really represent a large group of > people. > Artists also think about the tastes of their preferred audiences and > conform > their work accordingly --- more than they may admit. > WC > > > Since I am the only poster here who is not engaged in creating art, let me give you the non-artist's perspective on consensus. Artists always seem say that they NEED freedom because they NEED to create. Those compulsions are not shared by most people. And it's a good thing because if they were, where would the artists' audiences come from?
