DEATH and art...

[fingolfin]

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artist today is there such a thing as an "artist" nowadays, i think they are called "gold diggers".....every aspect of art these days aren't lasting as they used to. It's all for the money. One example is in music.

[joeltangunan]

Don't generalize it. I, myself is a composer, but I never barter love for gold. I have fulfillment with my music that money can't buy, like an art from within.

[pnk_shadows]

yeah artist's lives are as colorful as their artwork...tragedy seems to be pinned to some of them like van gogh and rembrandt...the ebb and flow of their life stories is like artwork itself, interesting and vivid, therefore, enticing...

[grace divina s. calabroso]

yup... hope art like this and in this color last forever...

[ignotus1770]

grace divina s. calabroso I completely agree with yor argument.

[MrBiddle]

Diba naghikog to si Van Gogh?

[arn2x]

we all die

[rockart9]

I think there are many prominent artists that go on to live very fruitful lives like Claude Monet who died at the ripe old age of 86 and Pablo Picasso who died in his 90s and there are some like Egon Schiele who died young at 28. We just happen to remember the latter because they died before their time and there's a sense of melancholy to that.

its almost like Ayton Senna and Michael Schumacher (hehe sorry but I couldn't find another comparison to site) Michael has broken every record in existence but most F1 fans and drivers regard the late Ayrton Senna a better driver than Michael. In fact Ayron seems to be the meter stick in which all others are compared to. If Ayrton had lived would that have been the case? I doubt it... Same thing why people still hold on to Kurt Cobain...

and oh, i don't think you have to be crazy to be an artist... I'm one and excluding one trip to the guidance counselor in highschool when when she told my mom I was "weird" I think I'm pretty sane... I just think that artist are able to go outside of themselves and not be bound by convention... and to a limiting mind that seems crazy...