• rabber@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        I believe the conspiracy that those people work for oil companies with the goal to make all activists look bad

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            3 days ago

            I think the actual nutters are the ones vandalizing priceless landmarks and actually turning the general population against climate activism.

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      Do you think artists are going to produce art to be freely hung in a museum?

      The reason art is valuable and worthy of being hung in a museum is because there is a market for it.

      Lay people travel to the Louvre to see the Gioconda because they perceive it as valuable, important, and irreplaceable.

      No market means no measure of value for art

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        I vehemently do no agree that art is only valuable because of it’s monetary worth. I pity you if that’s the only value you see.

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          2 days ago

          LOL

          I did not say monetary value was art’s only worth. However art that hangs in a museum got there because of its value. This is true across history and across cultures

          You pity me?

          Would love to hear about your art background and knowledge.

          I grew up around art. I am surrounded by art and artists everyday of my life. Literally

          Art is work. Artists do not work for free. Just like you don’t work for free. Some work is more valuable than other work. Some art is more valuable than other art

          Some art has very little artistic value, meaning it adds little to the conversation and the world of art

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            You’re just wrong bro lol.

            Artists make WAY more art “for free” than they do for monetary gain. I absolutely pity the fact that your concept of human expression is so tied to societies weird dependency on “value” and the institution of money.

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    Yes, I will store the expensive paintings in a house made of toothpicks and cardboard with a tar roof in a state known to have widespread fires every year. It is a good idea.

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        people with significant money in art assets have it documented and insured. if he had 30 pieces just by warhols and additional, we’re likely talking millions of dollars of assets.

        nobody leaves millions of dollars lying around without some sort of insurance

        to be honest, this is a great opportunity for him to cash out of all his expensive art in one fell swoop. i would be elated if I were him

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      On insurance company, my millions of dollars in art work burned up. Money please. No it’s not possible to verify if I just stuck them in a storage unit somewhere or not.