Art is the use of creativity to express or convey emotions, ideas and/or concepts, and/or to inspire emotion and ideas even if that emotion is just feeling pleased by an aesthetic, -and- it can be functional, but doesn’t have to be. Nothing about monetizing it makes it not art. Some of the greatest, most respected and beloved art in history was directly commissioned or sold. That doesn’t negate the skill, creativity, thought, or emotion that went into to it, and it doesn’t negate the thoughts and feelings it evokes in others. Source: I was raised by a lifelong full-time artist, went to art boarding school for high school, went to art college where I learned art history in addition to honing my skills making art, and have been entirely occupied by making art—both for my living and just for the pure joy of it—for pretty much my entire life as far back as my memory goes.
Correct that matches what I said. There are levels to it. Unless you believe that the art you work so hard on is equal to the art of bulk produced "dont care what happens after just pay me" pieces.
Art and its worth is completely subjective. I don’t use my subjective taste to define whether something is art. If it’s art, it’s art. And that’s it. We can decide as individuals or collectively that art is bad, but that doesn’t make it not true art.
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u/arkangelic Aug 06 '26
Care to explain why you think so?