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I saw an interesting item on tv yesterday. It was called: ” The Mona Lisa curse”. Though it sounds like the a sequel to “the Davinci code” it is actually a documentary about Robert Hughes and his view on the current relationship between money and art and how this came to be in the past thirty years.

This documentary made me think again about the relationship between money and art and off course my own position towards this. It seems many people and artists consider art a business and it is very difficult to deny that there is a definite connection between the freedom to make art and the need to feed a family(for instance). I don’t know how a hungry artist can concentrate on creating meaningful art, but history shows that it is possible.

I supose the bottom line is that an artist needs income to be free to create, but needs to avoid the greedy business attitude that brings us the ugly and populist art-business that Robert Hughes shows us.

Maybe it’s not so complicated really: just concentrate on making your art and cherish the people, who by buying your work enable you to create more good stuff. Make good art, to a fair price and it’ll be a fair business too. for all parties.

See part of the documentary here

And: Gustav Klimt and Mona Lisa

Warhol art factory

The Guardian article

The Mona Lisa curse on Culture most wanted

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