From 16252256a59ff3c318a384202e2a00a9601ec45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Burwell Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:06:51 -0400 Subject: Make posts page show only an excerpt, correct datetime --- _posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to '_posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown') diff --git a/_posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown b/_posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown index 1fee887..ae1d89e 100644 --- a/_posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown +++ b/_posts/2012-08-19-art-versus-design.markdown @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ As I was skimming [a list of observations on art versus design][list], I was str > Genuinely honest art is created without the market in mind — you are simply creating. Design is created with the market in mind — and the medium does not matter. If you’re a musician or painter, and purposefully crafting your work in order to sell, you’ve become a designer. + + This particular explanation, unlike some, seems to be quite specific and leave no question as to which category a given work falls under. (There are several other excellent quotes on the list; I highly recommend reading it through.) This particular line, though, made me wonder why we still call some things _art_. Immediately, the music industry popped into my mind. There are certainly many musicians who are truly artists, but they aren’t the ones that get rich off their music. The people who get rich off their music, more often than not, are simply writing songs (and if you’re lucky, they’ll be the ones actually writing them) about things that people will buy. These so-called “artists” slave away in recording studios, repeating each line over and over until its delivery is approved by the marketing team. Hollywood faces the same situation. This commercialization of art is not in fact art at all, but design. Hearing popular musicians revered as “artists” always sounded a little wonky to me. -- cgit v1.2.3