You guys are wrong about publicly funded art.

You guys are wrong about publicly funded art. (At least some of you.)

Here it is: money follows creativity, not the other way around. I mean, what do we really get out of spending money on the National Endowment for the Arts? A sculpture here or there, maybe a painting of a big orange plain with a streak on it and a blob that could be chewing gum? Besides, everyone knows that most of the great works in human history came about before the government funded any of it. What great masterworks have been produced because of the NEA? Does anyone "creating" on the public dime produce better paintings than Michelangelo, Picasso, Renoir or Rembrandt? Is our sculpture improved over Winged Victory or David?

All we get is a bunch of derivative crap that doesn't look like anything. The National Endowment for the Arts is mainly a way for a bunch of puffed up so-and-so's who think they are better than us to spend money funding like-minded hacks. It doesn't benefit you or me at all.

Here's an alternate proposal. Let's wait for the next generation of great creators to arise on their own, and once their genius is widely recognized, THEN we can fund them. Until then, let's think of something useful to do with that NEA money, like not funding shiftless hippies.








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By the way, for those who spent today in real life, I'm snarking on this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8169398
My apologies to all for being in a grumpy mood tonight. :p

imho absolutely not art from the soul.

consigned is where you put your work in a shop but you don't get paid anything unless it sells.

Nicely done!

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Kick, Rec. :thumbsup:

I want to be one when I grow up. :)

If Dick Cheney had announced that he had given a no-bid contract to a company called ArtWater, a Division of Halliburton, for $100 billion dollars to build patriotic statues in front of every post office in the United States, would I be an anti-art asshole if I was against it?

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all of those so-called "artworks" were actually created by chimps in the deserts of Nevada for the purpose of secretly funding the Black Budget which gets funneled into special ops teams working on the new kind of cat food.