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Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending t

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

ReggieJJJ 7y ago
I find this position rather irreconcilable. If you don't want the collectors not to hoard your poop, then don't produce it and especially don't sell it to them. Why would you have this mentality? If you don't want people to support your work with their patronage and appreciate your work as the "hoard" it on display in their house, why sell it at all and not just donate it and produce it for free? No one is stopping you from creating art for these types of programs to rent out art. Why not start a public version of that and stock it up so that everyone can just get low cost art for their homes that you produce for free … of course to avoid people from hoarding it.
datapunk 7y ago
Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?
- rectangletangle 7y ago
  Both?
  - Jach 7y ago
    "Derivative work" is the phrase to resolve any conundrums here.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
  There's a HN story from the past year or two about someone literally printing out other people's Twitter and/or Facebook pages and selling the prints in galleries for $thousands. I don't know the correct search terms to find it but it's out there. EDIT: Richard Prince[0] I guess I've been on HN longer than I thought. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889
- grepthisab 7y ago
  When Andy Warhol printed soup cans and put the prints in galleries, were the Campbell's logo designers the artists, or was Warhol?
  - ChefboyOG 7y ago
    I'm having art school flashbacks please stop hurting me.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
doyoulikeworms 7y ago
Wow, I love this. It'll be stuck in my head for a long time, thank you.

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

ReggieJJJ 7y ago

I find this position rather irreconcilable. If you don't want the collectors not to hoard your poop, then don't produce it and especially don't sell it to them. Why would you have this mentality? If you don't want people to support your work with their patronage and appreciate your work as the "hoard" it on display in their house, why sell it at all and not just donate it and produce it for free? No one is stopping you from creating art for these types of programs to rent out art. Why not start a public version of that and stock it up so that everyone can just get low cost art for their homes that you produce for free … of course to avoid people from hoarding it.

datapunk 7y ago

Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?

rectangletangle 7y ago
Both?
- Jach 7y ago
  "Derivative work" is the phrase to resolve any conundrums here.
phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
There's a HN story from the past year or two about someone literally printing out other people's Twitter and/or Facebook pages and selling the prints in galleries for $thousands. I don't know the correct search terms to find it but it's out there. EDIT: Richard Prince[0] I guess I've been on HN longer than I thought. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889
grepthisab 7y ago
When Andy Warhol printed soup cans and put the prints in galleries, were the Campbell's logo designers the artists, or was Warhol?
- ChefboyOG 7y ago
  I'm having art school flashbacks please stop hurting me.
kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

doyoulikeworms 7y ago

Wow, I love this. It'll be stuck in my head for a long time, thank you.