What Art Is, Part 6: Art and the Market
Art is free. Unlike businesses, artists do not respond to demand, they make things whether people want them or not. Art is an unavoidably awkward combatant in the arena of buying and selling because it is already paid for, the artist having donated labor and materials. So-called buyers are actually endorsing ideas and enabling artists, rather than simply acquiring objects.Flesh and Blood in Herringbone (acrylic on canvas, 2005) is a geometric abstraction based on a common woven pattern, in warm, bodily colors. The painting is about warmth and coldness in visual, interpersonal and economic terms.
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