How do artists justify their work?

Question

What reasons do artists give as to WHY they create what they do - especially 'conceptual' art?

I'm not saying that their work is unworthy - but surely they still have a reason other than because they can?

Answer 1

1. they can
2. they want to
3. they find that subject appealing
4. they want to sell it.
5. they want to display it.
6. they enjoy it
7. they embrace painting it.
8. they want to challenge themselves
9. they want to create something creativly
10. they want to be rememebered by it.
11. they want to make their own version of a certain concept.
12. they want to show the world what they see.
13.they want to make them selves feel contempt
14. they want to give other people the chance to have just a piece of an imagination of another individual.

Answer 2

How do you express yourself then... or do you wonder if you really are an individual...?
Sometimes pictures last longer in the observers mind than a few words, a sculpture lasts longer... the point is artists express a wonderment that words too easily forget... but that is a romantic view of art, what about political art... why should we be restricted to expression only through words and actions... you tell me!
And conceptual art, how many people understand, let alone express, a concept in any form?

Answer 3

I don't know why they WOULD have to justify things, it's a creative venture and nobody has to justify what comes out.

Does a writer justify their novel? Does a cook have to justify their new creation? Nope. Artists don't have to either.

Usually if someone feels the need TO justify what they made, they're responding from an insecurity in themselves. The good artists who have experience behind them know that nothing needs to be explained.

Answer 4

Why do artists even need to justify their work? They are artist. Let them create for christ's sake. Their work is done to let us interpret it, whether good or bad.

Answer 5

It is a thing that wells up inside and must be released or the pressure is too great.

Answer 6

Artist don't and critics try.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

its a language, and like any other we have to learn their language if we want to speak with them, not them use our language .... nothing new = no innovation = boring ....

Answer 9

they dont
critics do