people think art is noble and puissant....isnt art 99.989 % egotism and money?

Question

sorry i forgot to mention snobbish elitism...but i suppose all the reasons why people want to own "status" art...or why people want to be perceived as a rarified "artist" come under egotism.

Answer 1

No, art is not egotism and money.

I am an artist who like many others do it for the enjoyment and self expression. I have sold a few paintings and other pieces of work, and have been asked in the past the do a piece of glass engraving for a Town Twinning Bowl which was sent to France. However, most artists think that their art, although they like it, is never good enough. So that squashes the egotism bit.

I have many pieces of work that I have done and never sold.

The artists I believe who make mega bucks, have just had a lucky break, by exhibiting at the right time and the right place, and have been seen by the right connected people. They are the people who do it full time, and need to to be able to have the large sums of money to be able to live on and to be able to replenish their paint supplies and materials which are very expensive. Especially if a piece of work is a very large painting.

Answer 2

Reading what answers that have been given by the sensible people, you might come to the conclusion that art and artists are not egotistical, they are probably the opposite. I sometimes get frustrated that the work is not as good as i want it to be, i work in stone and wood if you make a mistake you have made a mistake so it can be very annoying. I do it because i want to not because i want to show off. There is very little money only the lucky one get the breaks

Answer 3

No, you have to love creating something enough to put up with the greedy egotists, shameless brassneck gobshites and crooked dealers ... and then there are the ignorant dipsticks who just don't get why people have such a compulsion to create stuff.

I don't know why I like to make paintings, write stuff, devise classroom activities, mess around with clay, stones, soil, watch people, photograph and sketch people ... I just do. I get ill when I don't.

Answer 4

it is today.think chop up cows.tents mess up beds.and the man next door has four broken cars in his garden.and when i complain
he said it was a work of art.and hes waiting for the tate to pick up.
whos to say its not a work of art compare with the crap art of today.

Answer 5

Consdering how many renowned artists had died penniless and unknown, most only achieving fame posthumously, I wonder if you should stop showing your ignorance . . .

Answer 6

look at movies they call that art its all about money. what a crock