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ColdBacon	the internet will be the end of fine art as we know it	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3768 (04/02/07 17:40:05) The Sauce Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad That is what the defenders of our exclusive art say. But I think they do not themselves believe it. They cannot help knowing that fine art can arise only on the slavery of the masses of the people, and can continue only as long as the slavery lasts, and they cannot help knowing that only under conditions of intense labor for the workers can specialistswriters, musicians, dancers, and actorsarrive at that finer degree of perfection to which they do attain, or produce their refined works of art; and only under the same condition can there be a fine public to esteem such productions. Free the slaves of capital, and it will be impossible to produce such refined art.
ColdBacon	Re: the internet will be the end of fine art as we know it	#1	[-]
Posts: 3768 (04/03/07 13:23:37) The Sauce Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	So that in all there will be in Europe, say, one hundred and twenty thousand painters; and there are probably as many musicians and as many literary artists. If these three hundred and sixty thousand individuals produce three works a year each (and many of them produce ten or more), then each year yields over a million so-called works of art. How many, then, must have been produced in the last ten years, and how many in the whole time since upper-class art broke off from the art of the whole people? Evidently millions. Yet who of all the connoisseurs of art has received impressions from all these pseudo works of art? Not to mention all the laboring classes who have no conception of these productions, even people of the upper classes cannot know one in a thousand of them all, and cannot remember those they have known. These works all appear under the guise of art, produce no impression on anyone (except when they serve as pastimes for the idle crowd of rich people), and vanish utterly.
ColdBacon	and a new beginning	#2	[-]
Posts: 3768 (04/03/07 13:27:24) The Sauce Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	People think that if there are no special art schools the technique of art will deteriorate. Undoubtedly, if by technique we understand those complications of art which are now considered an excellence, it will deteriorate; but if by technique is understood clearness, beauty, simplicity, and compression in works of art, then, even if the elements of drawing and music were not to be taught in the national schools, the technique will not only not deteriorate but, as is shown by all peasant art, will be a hundred times better. It will be improved, because all the artist of genius now hidden among the masses will become produces of art and will give models of excellence, which (as has always been the case) will be the best schools of technique for their successors. For every true artist even now learns his technique chiefly not in the schools, but in life, from the examples of the great masters; thenwhen the produces of art will be the best artist of the whole nation, and there will be more such examples, and they will be more accessiblesuch part of the school training as the future artist will lose will be a hundredfold compensated for by the training he will receive from the numerous examples of good art diffused in society. The artist of the future will live the common life of man, earning his subsistence by some kind of labor. The fruits of that highest spiritual strength which passes through him he will try to share with the greatest possible number of people, for in such transmission to others of the feelings that have arisen in him he will find his happiness and his area. The artist of the future will be unable to understand how an artist, whose chief delight is in the wide diffusion of his works, could give them only in exchange for a certain payment.

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