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Luigi Stranieri
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My daughter chose INVESTING WITH ART as subject for her Bachelor Degree Thesis. Now, yesterday at the presentation of the subjects, her exams coordinator told to the class that this subject is not really suited for ART LOVERS because they’ll need to work with an Auction House and they will discover the dark side of art. In his opinion this could jeopardize their vision on a so called loved subject. 1. I don’t think he needed to share his opinion at this stage 2. His opinion is wrong 😑 Thoughts?
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Nick T
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It's deeply philosophical. I think he's implying about the difference between art _purely_ for the sake of expressing something vs. art for the sake of popularity. yes, you can express something you really mean and also have that expression become popular, and make you money in a market. I'd argue this is rare, because of the nature of optimisation. markets optimise. spending much time thinking from a market-first perspective inherently means optimising for popularity. this is at expense of optimising for some kind of inner unique expression (this type of "purity" of love). I think a lot of artists struggle with this, it's a recurring trope. One wants to express themselves fully, but also wants to make a living. I think his opinion isn't wrong, but it isn't true either, it's only his opinion. but I agree that sharing deep opinions to impressionable people (students) gives them a bias. but what doesn't? everything is bias. Schopenhauer would have had a similar take to this guy:
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Luigi Stranieri
@luigistranieri
Totally get your point, and reading your words I started to think that probably you’re also right. First of all because I worked with an artist who struggled a lot with the concept of pure art vs optimized art and indeed the struggle is real. Under this light I also can understand what he probably meant and probably his intention wasn’t that bad. Told this, the scale still tip on the side of “let people deal with it” imo. As you said, 20yo students are impressionable and the teacher pov can determinate a career. Last but not least, I’m biased too, because she’s my daughter, and of course I would love to see her comes out from the UNI with strong personal opinions and not with teachers opinions. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I appreciated so much 🙇🏻♂️
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