> When Michelangelo sculpted the Pietà, the pain it expressed was a feeling that many people had shared, so it became culture. So, first, any art that is funde

> When Michelangelo sculpted the Pietà, the pain it expressed was a feeling that many people had shared, so it became culture. So, first, any art that is funded by the church or a patron is not really in this conversation. The entire economics of that art is outside of the eyeball conversation. If art that is pre-funded strikes a chord with people, it is the same thing as I said about artists in the past. Like Coltraine or Hendrix, they expressed something unique or personal that it was discovered that all people shared, and it therefore became culture. There are mounds upon mounds of crappy pre-funded religious art that impacted no-one whatsoever. So Pietra is precisely the opposite of pop art, although that is what it became. Which is what makes it culture.