30/04/2021
Most Artists today make their Art as a long cycle feedback service to potential buyers. In other words, sales or the hope of them, drive the artist to create work that sells, this ultimately impoverished excellence and a large part of potential creativity. The system of 17c academies some sponsored by altruistic individuals could be seen as the progenitor of modern arts education, but that has gone markedly off-plan, becoming so homogeneous and focused on consistent return on investment that is equality has placed bounds on modern creativity. Instead, there is an argument that at some level would-be artists, (and by that I mean the future of Art), or at least a good fraction of them might be served by much more independent means of developing their talents... Who's in?
Art academies were principally constructed to instruct and train young artists with a set of codes and foundational principles. Artists would emulate contemporary forms. In some ways, such principles emulated academic scholastic forms that sought to perfect existing styles and that avoided innovatio...
