Why do Artists have to have special welfare ?
If you want to stick a crucifix in urine, and call it art, do it on your own time, and your own dime.
Because they want their paintings, sculptures, etc to be worth millions, just like Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh, etc etc etc. But, they’re too stupid and lazy to understand that the artwork those guys put together, so long ago, probably wasn’t worth all that much, at the time. It was only years later, that their stuff was worth millions.
These NEAs grubs, want all the fame and riches, NOW!!!!! Typical liberals.
They don’t. Great artists will always make it to the top eventually in a free country.
The Marxists needed to elevate ugly and vulgar art to destroy civil society-—so they needed taxpayers to fund the perverted and evil artists who wouldn’t have a “chance” in a free market. They got control of museums so they could elevate “DADA” or other idiot stuff. They wanted us (socialism/welfare) to fund our own demise and cultural rot (to destroy the virtue in children raised in vulgar, evil culture, to destroy that desire for Excellence (virtue).
Welfare destroys the Merit system and competition which is necessary for great, flourishing art. In Florence, during the High Renaissance, they had competitions all the time open to any artists. Brunelleschi won the contest to complete the church (Duomo).
I'm sure that much of the subsidy money winds up sticking to the fingers of the enlightened bureaucrats who get to evaluate candidate artists, decide who gets the grants, administer and monitor the grants, etc. They are on salary. The influential constituency for many grant programs is often not the ultimate recipients but the overseeing bureaucrats siphoning off large "administrative costs".
***Why do Artists have to have special welfare ?***
Back in the 1930s commercial artists could find plenty of jobs painting covers for pulp magazines. When FDR started the New Deal, one of the stipulations for the arts was no one drawing government funds could have a REAL artist’s job. All their support had to come from the government.