Time for the arts to support themselves. They’re workers...just like anyone else.
“They’re workers...just like anyone else.”
Except nobody really needs a fifty foot tall bat or a photo of a bullet in an anus. They call them “starving artists” because so few people actually want to buy their product. Churches and kings were patrons of the arts for good reasons, they made propaganda (or, educational materials, if you will) for the church or the “state.” Propaganda is exactly what NPR is and all the other state sponsored “art.” The problem is, unlike “Why We Fight” it is not propaganda for anything conservative. This is why there’s such a fight about it.
It’s time to take government out of the propaganda business and let the “arts” struggle on their own. If nobody buys the product then the artists need to get real jobs.
(Uhm...bah, humbug.)
I have a “friend” who is as extreme left loonie as can be.
She makes tons of money as an art professor, and gets her stupid political opinion cartoons reliably printed by loonie left publications.
She lives in a posh gated community with her (sort of) husband who sells his crappy “art” to wealthy trust fund punks who want to show they have culture. Oh yeah he is a professor too. It’s his way of “giving back.”
They ought to preach what they practice.
Its not just about the money. Its about the actual art no matter how its funded.
Art is part of the fabric of culture and the communists name taking control of artistic expression as a stated goal and they’ve been very successful.
A while back I read an article about how photographers become successful. Basically it said to hang around gay people, photograph them doing gay things, be gay yourself, and push a message.
Political art has always existed and will always have a place but its extremely damaging when it infects all. Its kind of like politicized science. Imagine where we would be today if Jonas Salk had been outspoken against abortion or gay marriage in today’s world.