In your opinion does ART need MONEY?

Most people I have met tell me:





Art needs time, time needs money, hence art need money.





I dont think it does, you find artist who sacrifice both money and security for their art. We all need food and water, but how one gets it and how much time one spends getting it differs from perons to person. One can find artists all over the world, from the poorest countries to the richest.








"Art requires not just time, but also the resources to pay for the necessary medium".





but this all depends on what kind of art you create. e.g. art brut

In your opinion does ART need MONEY?
Heck yeah Art needs money! He's got a wife and four kids. The oldest one just learned how to drive, so he's got insurance, the second two have braces, and the fourth one's got ADD.





OK, OK... So if art doesn't need money, then what about consumer goods. I bleed out ten, twenty dollars for a shirt that cost fifty cents to create, and right there on the damn thing is an ad for shoes. When you put an ad like that up on the highway, it costs hudreds of dollars. I'm paying one company to give another company free advertising. Why don't the two companies just get together, and give the shirts away? Why? Because people have been led to believe that they need shirts. Trust me, men and women in many parts of the world do without shirts.





Consumer goods are in fact a form of art, mass produced folk art, designed to serve a purpose, and provide a minimum level of aesthetic pleasure in the process. These products have value, because they have a purpose.





"Art" as we like to call it has a value. Nobody's twisting these rich guys arms to make them buy fancy paintings and posh statuary.Nobody orders college students around the globe to plaster their walls with posters. Nobody forces the recluse on the edge of town to stick up copies of the Mona Lisa. These people make a conscious decision to spend their hard earned money on art. Why? It's a rare person today who will tell you a painting will sell for more later, and nobody claims that the latest movie poster or duplicate art work will be of any value five years from now. Nobody thinks that the picture of the washer woman will wash clothes for us, yet we buy them. I suggest that art has value, and therefore, it must have a purpose which gives it this value.
Reply:Yes art needs money. Take it from me I have no money and as a result I'm going no where. It's very annoying!!! I have all these creations in my head and I can't do a thing with them. Not to mention I have all these paintings to sell but no money to take them anywhere to sell them.
Reply:Art doesn't need money but what artist doesn't. Other than time artists don't really sacrifice anything, no more than any other people do with what starts out as a hobby of their choice. Artist are no more special than other people who take the time to learn to do something and do it really well, and the benifit here is that, somewhere along the line someone will actually want to pay you for doing it. No, art doesn't need money but it does take money. I do respect artists for one thing, and my artist friends in particular (some who have made little or no money for reasons of their own, but have been doing it longer than i have) and that is, sticking it out while many others simply give up. They encouraged me and i learned from some of their mistakes, so when i make money i buy them paints, brushes, or canvas when i can. No sacrifice, i just learned to do the kind of art i love and have fun with. I also took the time to learn (and still learning) the business side of it, and this is where artists make their biggest mistakes. Give people what they want, not what you think they want, and you may just make some money doing it.
Reply:We’ve got to be realistic and logical here, art needs money but money can not alone create an art... Medium in art is very important. One thing a good work of art needs a great deal of medium to make sure that it would last… I mean how it can be good when it’s only good for a time.
Reply:technically, art doesn't need money. for example, you cud make art out of junk you find on the side of a street. not only that, but did anyone stop to think that dancings a form of art? you dnt need money to dance.