Okay, what is it with everyone wants to be an artist? I personally feel that we are all artistic... it's part of our birthright as human, co-creative beings.
However, I sense that art and marketing are intertwining in such a way that art is the cool new business strategy. The fallout is that our creative impulses are being driven by a business plan and business objective rather than a passion for creating beauty and commentary on the human condition.
There is an intrinsic connection between business, "art" and money, because to be financially successful, to eat, and pay bills, art must get sold. But it seems that art as a business concept has gotten out of hand. Andy Warhol was brilliant and very lucky. The avant-garde artist today, however, seems to just as likely have an MBA as an MFA, and sees art as a brilliant commodity rather than an angst-driven need. Perhaps its evidence that the artist is simply getting more savvy and independent, taking the business reigns into her own hands rather than paying for agent to help with such busy work.
Or is it because we are in America and here we expect to realize the great American dream of making millions, so we'll do it by whatever means seems market-friendly or predictive at the time? Perhaps we are channeling our creativity into conceiving of ways to make money rather than writing the next big opera... because, for some, making money is its own art form. Is this true? Is it enough? Will there ever be enough?
