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Zippy's avatar

All very good - perhaps!

But with very rare exceptions most artists are just as much trapped in the dominant narcissistic death-saturated reductionist zeitgeist of the times.

Put in another way, without exception all of ones artistic output is in effect a biographical portrait/description of the author/artist/composer. Narcissus looking in the pond enamored of his/her reflection!

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Stegiel's avatar

Well tautological in that all artists are only human and not angelic but by their humanity may point to the Moon. All creatives are trapped by the existence. Creativity seems to be the energetic key.

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Dingbat's avatar

Please. There is nothing like public money to ruin the arts. We can't even agree on what is art and what is it for. We live in ugly urban surroundings because our landscapes are built and inhabited by people without aesthetic sensitivities. A government facing movement will not change this.

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Stegiel's avatar

Artists on you I call! Not governments. And I agree with Ferlinghetti that the State needs to stay out of Patronage.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

on board, if you accept people who do not do 'god' stuff. Plants and trees and earth for me. Like before bibles.

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