Sunday, March 15, 2009
Yes, I agree with Wright's theory that artists and politicians stand at opposite poles, both the types of approaches demonstrated and the essential intended goal is very different. Artists are creating some sort of visual/audio object that is intended to evoke emotion within its viewers, the specific emotion that prevails doesn't necessarily matter to the artist. The primary purpose of most artists is to influence. They have a much more expansive range in which they can reach the people, and their success is not determined ultimately by "pleasant" or "approving" reactions to their art. Politicians on the other hand have a shit load of pressure allocated upon their shoulders. If they don't satisfy the public they won't have a job and their ability to influence people quickly diminishes. They are working to provide their community with what the people living within it want. Their amount of freedom is much more limited and the scope of evaluation is much more direct and explicit.
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I agree with what you're saying about the fact that politicians are more limited than artists. That's by the points that you noted and also, I think, just by nature that an artist would be more expansive and have more freedom in what they do. I do however think that artists have some amount of need for the audience to accept them. They do have to succumb to what people like. They, like politicians, will not have a job if people don't like their work. While their intent is to influence, they can't influence, and they can't get their work out to the public if they don't direct it to be liked by their audience.
I also agree with what you are saying. Artist have much more freedom in the idea that they are accepting. But, unlike what Eryn stated below, I don;t think that artist really need an audience, well I don't think they look for one any way. Usually the most famous artist never had any support while they were alive, but they still continued it as their career.
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