Scott ([info]sprainedsoul) wrote,
@ 2003-04-04 20:44:00
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Your dissonant voice on my radio, your undernourished and maladroit body on my stage, your ineffectual and uninspired peices of pretense in my field of view. It's better than destruction and apathy, but...What are you going to do when all art is signed anonymously?

What are you going to do when you can't take credit for your art? Your oft-shattered ego won't get the shot in the arm it needs when your signature doesn't exist anymore and the steely truth of art for art's sake bares down on you like an unpayable debt. Sounds and images will only exist as fundamental expressions of the soul and not as a source of rent payment. Once it's all anonymous, bad art will die and we'll be able to consider all work based on it's ability to produce emotion from those exposed to it or any other merits not weighed down with vogue preconceptions. Your Broadway dreams will drop when you can't see your name in lights and the art school drop outs will be able to wash your dishes and wait on your tables knowing that what they have to say is just as exposed as your haut couture mediocrity.

Your ego won't feed you art so your art shouldn't feed your ego.

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[info]sprainedsoul
2003-04-05 07:12 am UTC (link)
If you want to have pride in your work, go ahead but the chance of your work suffering for that pride is very much real.

And paying the rent is a struggle as any other,my point is that bad art will cease when no money or person is attached to it.

That's the idea of signing all art anonymously, nothing to be gained from it and no ego to weigh it down.

The argument is not weither bad art is an expression or not, it's weither it will survive when it's not forced upon us and good art has just as much a shot of getting to us.

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[info]radd
2003-04-05 08:22 am UTC (link)
There are many things that one's art could suffer from. Pride is one thing, yes.

Fear is another. Fear that one isn't good enough to create, they second guess themselves, don't push themselves as far as they could, or ultimately stop creating altogether.

Greed is another. When an artists stops creating work with any personal meaning. When they stop creating the music they want to hear, or the images that they want to see, in favour of what the media will be able to sell to the people.

Poverty is another. When an artist cannot afford the equipment they need to create. When they're to hungry to concentrate on the image they're trying to put to paper or the song they're trying to compose.

Narrow-mindedness is another. When an artist creates work that they like, paints from the heart. Tells the stories they like to tell...but they limit themselves to that. They don't experiment or branch out to see what else the world has to offer.

If you look and see though, good art is all around us. Not every song on the radio is churned out by some soulless corporate drones, picked for their looks and some mediocrum of talent.

Not every cartoon or comic is done by someone who doesn't care what they draw as long as it brings them another dollar.

Not every painting is done by someone who paints solely to gain the highest praise for the curators and critics.

Not every movie is made simply to make millions at the box office.

The money and recognition that good artwork gets allows the artists that created those to create more great works.

Now, if your argument was that we'd see more artwork if artists weren't bound by the need for things like rent and food money, or the acclaim that brings in more money to keep them out of the cold, well...I'm not certain if that would work, but I'd certainly like to see it tried.

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[info]sprainedsoul
2003-04-05 08:27 am UTC (link)
You're missing the point entirely, when all art is signed anonymously, all that is bad will die on it's own. If it's mediocre, it creates nothing but indifference and people move on to the next thing. Money and recognition shouldn't drive you to make more art, thus the idea of art for art's sake.

If you get paid to do work, that's fine, that's not what I'm argueing, I'm merely proposing the possibilities of art signed anonymously.

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[info]kristenq
2003-04-05 08:38 am UTC (link)
Or not signed at all. On a sort of unrelated note, some people have the worst [AND LARGEST] .sig's...

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