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What artist does though?
by wkat4242 1y ago
What artist does though?
- warmedcookie 1y agoThe painter of light
- hn_throwaway_99 1y agoOn that point, I saw a pretty great documentary about Thomas Kinkade called "Art for Everybody" a year or so ago at a film festival. Was pretty fascinating. I won't give away too much but was really interesting to go into the man (and his other artwork) behind the facade.
- p1anecrazy 1y agoThank you, I found this very insightful.
- dehrmann 1y agoI'd pay a decent amount of some of his darker paintings.
- egypturnash 1y agoAny artist who wants to be able to pay their bills without doing anything besides "making art". If you can convince giant bags of money pretending to be people that one of your paintings is worth several years worth of the median wage, it's no more a less a commodity than if you're selling hundreds of thousands of prints of the same image for $5 apiece.
- stevage 1y agoWarhol
- burningChrome 1y agoWhich is fascinating to think he wanted to mass produce art and then after he died, the same thing happened; all of his stuff that was still around ended up creating a scarcity and driving up the price of his stuff anyways.
- burningChrome 1y agoBanksy? Until it becomes apparent the people he loathes the most are the ones willing to pay him ungodly amounts of money for his "art"; so he relents and sells it to them anyways.
- qingcharles 1y agoI don't knock Banksy for making a buck here and there. I can't see he even licenses any of his art for merch. He says all his art is free for non-commercial use. I don't think there's any commercial aspect to his work. When I briefly knew some of his graffiti friends in the early 2000s they were struggling like crazy to try and make a quid or two from their art. They were all doing art-for-art's-sake. They were selling their best pieces on eBay for peanuts to pay their bills, or to buy other art they wanted to own. I just regret not buying one of his first pieces when he was selling them for about 100 quid a piece o_O