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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 631742" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think the basic problem is that there is a surplus of artists.  More people become artists than the market will bear, driving the perceived value of art down below the level of the cost of producing such art.   The actual number of buyers of art is probably quite small, especially so since art is often an incidental feature of some other commodity that we purchase.  Books have covers with visual imagery.  RPG tomes are filled with various illustrations.  Every player of CCG's is a collector of art.  Movies contain flashy art and imagery.  Advertising is filled with art.   Magazines are filled with advertising.  Even the ordinary objects of life which we buy at a discount store are in some way artistic.  We are surrounded with art, and it should be no surprise that the average persons need for art is satisfied by his common experience of the world arround him to the extent that he will not spend a large sum to purchase art for art's sake.Given the constraints of my budget, I would count myself in that category.  And supposing that I did have a budget of 10's of thousands of dollars to spend on original art, it would not be on the sort of art being produced by your average artist.  It would be lithographs for early Sci-Fi conventions, cover art for comic books, the original paintings for certain magic cards, the original works of Ted Naismith, assorted movie and cartoon art, and so forth.  In other words, peices which had significant personal meaning to me and which carried a certain prestige value amongst the people I most often choose as friends.  Why I or anyone should care particularly for another oil painting of a landscape I do not recognize is beyond me.</blockquote>

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