But must they be paid for bad work?
Artists must be allowed to make bad work
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Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#32"Must be allowed to” sounds like a weasel word. It is not illegal to make bad work. I doubt any contract an artist signs usually has a clause against producing bad work either. That phrase may sound sophisticated and provocative but it means nothing, at least to me.
The article makes it clear that it is about social pressure, not legal obligations.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#33There’s even a museum for them: https://museumofbadart.org/
Execution is lagging here it would be more fruitful if we would see Vince Van Gogh or Pablo Picasso bad work rather than just some noname artists.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#34"Must be allowed to” sounds like a weasel word. It is not illegal to make bad work. I doubt any contract an artist signs usually has a clause against producing bad work either. That phrase may sound sophisticated and provocative but it means nothing, at least to me.
It's not a sophisticated way to write.
If you get stuck on words, expressions, or idioms and constantly interpret them wrong, it usually means that you can't parse context well. If the expression "must be allowed" bothers you in this text, your OECD literacy level is most likely below 3.
It's easy to fix if you start reading more books, you start to improve.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#35They funded vice with like a billion dollars, right? We're not just allowing it, we're actively encouraging it.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems pretty clear to me, especially with the context provided in the article itself: don't judge an artist solely by the last thing they made; don't write them off just because they're going through a bad patch.
People must be allowed to judge and write off artists solely based on the last thing they made
People are reading this text in two ways:
1) A suggestion is made for the readers and to the society to change how the judge and think about artists.
2) Writers tries to convey new norms, forbid judgement.
What do you think the writer tried to do here?
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of that value is in the aspect of the sketch as a historical artifact. There's little present performance to speak of when it comes to Da Vinci.
That's simply not true. Almost all the value will be because it's attributed to da Vinci. You simply won't get the same valuation if it's attributed to a lesser known contemporary. And you don't need to go historical. I just picked da Vinci as an example. If you or I made a balloon dog sculpture, it won't be valued the same as a Jeff Koons one [0]. Even if it's essentially identical. There's a whole subset of the art…
Well, the balloon dog example simply boils down to the fact that your work will only be seen as a rip-off.
> There's a whole subset of the art market that is valuing on provenance not the physical object.
Subset? I believe provenance is almost everything that matters in art, because it's what equips an artifact with meaning. Duchamp's urinal neatly exemplifies this.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#38"Must be allowed to” sounds like a weasel word. It is not illegal to make bad work. I doubt any contract an artist signs usually has a clause against producing bad work either. That phrase may sound sophisticated and provocative but it means nothing, at least to me.
It's not a sophisticated way to write. If you get stuck on words, expressions, or idioms and constantly interpret them wrong, it usually means that you can't parse context well. If the expression "must be allowed" bothers you in this text, your OECD literacy level is most likely below 3. It's easy to fix if you start reading more books, you start to improve.
I don’t mean that it is written in contrived manner. I mean that it is vague. There is no context, there is only a clickbait title.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a sophisticated way to write. If you get stuck on words, expressions, or idioms and constantly interpret them wrong, it usually means that you can't parse context well. If the expression "must be allowed" bothers you in this text, your OECD literacy level is most likely below 3. It's easy to fix if you start reading more books, you start to improve.
I don’t mean that it is written in contrived manner. I mean that it is vague. There is no context, there is only a clickbait title.
> I mean that it is vague. There is no context, there is only a clickbait title.
If you can't parse the context from the writing, there is no context for you.
Re: Artists must be allowed to make bad work
#40Actually this applies to humans in general.
One of my pet peeves is artists (and journalists) setting themselves apart as a “high priesthood” and claiming things for themselves specially which should apply to humans in general.
Yes, artists should be allowed to make bad work and go through bad times because humans must be allowed to make bad work and go through bad times.
Yes, creativity and freedom is important for artists because creativity and freedom is important for all humans.
Yes the government should not be spying on journalists, because it shouldn’t be spying on people in general.