jhmcd2 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2008 ยท 306 posts
kawecki posted Wed, 16 April 2008 at 2:27 AM
We must sepparate business from art. Business is for making $$$$$, is for profit, if you sell an urinol for $15,000 it was an excellent business, but is not art!
Business can sell you a Van Gogh painting or a toddler's painting painted with his own shit, what is important is the amount of $$$ they get in the transaction.
Business has his own rules, rules that are independent of art and freedom, you can make business with Democarcy and with dictatures, even China that is Communist is making an excellent huge business.
Who makes business takes his decisions, the risks and set the rules, if they find that censorship is good for business you have censorship. If their decision was good the profit will increase, if this was bad they'll jump through the window.
Art is something different, art is above commerce, puritans, moralists, lawyers, goverments and sociologists dictating the rules. Art exist and existed even was forbiden and lot of works destroyed in a pyre. Artists were burned, jailed and even so they continued to make their art, to not be so dramatic, most of the artists were expert enough to survive, nothing happened with them neither to their work, even forbiden and against the moral, religion or politics.
Of course you can make art and business too, only you need to sepparate both activities (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide???, well... who is who?)
Stupidity also evolves!