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Selling politically motivated art, is unethical...? (discuss)

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~Cohesive-Confusion:iconCohesive-Confusion: 4 days 20 hours ago
Am I the only person who feels that to mix politics and art is inartistic?

I don't mean, that an excellent drawing is bad, because it's political, but rather, to motivate your art because of political iniquity, to sell, is not artistic or ethical. If a nation commits genocide, then it's not artistic to sell a painting to empathize with the victims; it's artificial. If your brother got killed by a drunk police officer, unjustly, in my opinion it would be OK to paint a picture for him. But to turn and sell it, isn't that artificial? Art is subjective, so there is no basis for this topic in "truth", but rather opinion, so leave your thoughts, thanks:

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*AJGlass:iconAJGlass: 4 days 20 hours ago
Don't ever say "discuss" in this forum - it makes you look like an idiot.

After all, what else are we going to do, play croquet instead?



Am I the only person who feels that to mix politics and art is inartistic?

Yes. You are the only one. You are alone. So... terribly alone.



Art is subjective, so there is no basis for this topic in "truth"

Thread over. OP has invalidated his complaint. Everyone move along.

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~Cohesive-Confusion:iconCohesive-Confusion: 4 days 19 hours ago
:rofl: at closed minded pathetic person attempting to be intelligent
I'd refrain from flaming, but you're not an artistic person anyway, so whatever
Rot in hell, you conceited piece of trash

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*thegraymalkin:iconthegraymalkin: 4 days 19 hours ago
Why is it unethical, what if the artist actually had strong feelings about the subject matter?

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*Nautika:iconNautika: 4 days 19 hours ago
... Oh my. You're going to do well here. Ad hominem two posts in.

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~Cohesive-Confusion:iconCohesive-Confusion: 4 days 19 hours ago
The reason I attacked is because this person has flamed me, and targeted me roughly 5 times in the past 4 minutes on 2 different threads.

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*Baha05:iconBaha05: 4 days 19 hours ago
See this is where you failed already, trying to hae a dicussion yet already start flinging out words like close minded and pathetic

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*Nautika:iconNautika: 4 days 19 hours ago
If you think so lowly of them for flaming, why would you respond in kind? Just ignore people who post stuff that upsets you. Here they usually only do it for the reaction, so if you don't give them the reaction they stop.

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~OuthouseInferno:iconOuthouseInferno: 4 days 19 hours ago
Everyone's ethics are different.

That said, I see no reason not to sell it. If people don't want it, then they don't buy it.

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*AJGlass:iconAJGlass: 4 days 19 hours ago
Wow, you took my post seriously? :lol:



you're not an artistic person anyway

I'm not? Then why is there all that art in my Gallery? :paranoid:

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~FightTheManMan:iconFightTheManMan: 4 days 19 hours ago
I agree, it kinda got old after about 2006.

I'm not an artist or anything, that's just when it started to get irritating.

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