Reply #39: I think you misunderstood me [View All]

[northzax]

I have no problem with art inspired by faith, quite the opposite, in fact (most classical art is after all, inspired by religion and faith) She's being merchandised, I looked at the site, nothing there that would inspire me to hang it anywhere but a waiting room. Art should inspire you, it should make you think of something in a different light. There are ten thousand technically skilled painters in the world, how many will hang in museums? 25? 30? in an exceptional century, 100? why is that, you think? are those 100 more talented? more technically skilled? or did they just have something to say the other's didn't?

I will grant that this young woman has technical skill. but it's not fine art, something that tells a story in a different or better way than others, it has no real vision. Maybe she will develop that, as of now, it's not there and she is being commodified, turned into a paining factory for the enrichment of others around her. That's fine as well, but rarely do commercial success and continued artistic development inhabit the same simultaneous space. If you paint for the mass market, then that determines your painting, and you become Thomas Kinkaid, Andy Warhol or even Picasso, promising, talented artists who ran out of things to say and just kept selling.