Worth of an Artist7/25/07 Who does not want a career to do as you please? To do as you feel? To express who you are? Who works a job they despise waking up for in the morning? Who dreams about being elsewhere? Who expresses who they aren't? Why do people settle for jobs which they are unhappy with?...Responsibility... Aren't we all artist of our own Destiny? Artist of being? ..."Ars Poetica"... "Poetry is"...One is Art is noticing life and taking time out to identify consciousness....Do career artist have any right over the average worker to have this claim?... No... Artist have the claim to be able to chart territories most cannot due to responsibilities and issues of roles in society. Artists actually have the responsibility to speak for these people. What is the worth of an artisit? The amount his work can sell? $5? $555,555,555? ...In that case what is his personal worth? What is he worth? The worth of art work is not the physical form in which it is presented but rather the process and thought that brought the work into fruitition. All works of art are an ode to the human experience. The worth of an Artist is how much of his experience and his collection of understandings he can successfully communicate through a given medium and medians. If he can do it in a manner that is initially appealing. Look at human sexual behavious for example.
A man is attracted to another being first physically which draws him closer to their inner being and substance. To get to a level of aesthetically pleasing art takes work but getting to a level of substance takes life experience. |