Reply #100: Just to clarify [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

I'm not knocking signed prints. I'm not knocking artists who make or attempt to make a living selling prints/reproductions of their own work. And I'm sure as hell not knocking those wonderful people who support us by buying our work! A thousand blessings on you! ;-)


I'm knocking those "artists" (usually but not always painters & photographers) who mass re-produce their own work -- MASS produce, not signed, not numbered, not limited edition -- but call it "original" and then attempt to discriminate against mere "artisans" and "crafters" who produce original, hand-made (and usually functional) items. The rationale is that "craft" isn't "art," even when it's "original." And the idea that artistic merit is in inverse proportion to selling price REALLY bugs me.

I shouldn't have gone off on this tangent, but it's a really sore spot with me.

I'll quietly slink off into my cave, er, studio now.



Tansy Gold, starving artist