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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (48965)	11/16/2001 7:49:21 AM
From: Bruce Brown	Read Replies (1) of 54805

[Many of the most 'famous' past artists from other time periods lived their lives as paupers] yes, and i beleive thsi is inconsistnt with you're theorie that insert a star in their field" here _______ - their talent stood out heads and tails above others from the get go. I guess I failed to explain it clearly. I immediately was thinking of painters and sculptors from previous eras of history that had a different capital structure in terms of being paid for their talent. If you know your art, music and world history, you understand how the system was operating in previous centuries under the class system as well as the church and state system in Europe. A great deal of performers as well as artists were not living lucrative lives from their talent - at least in terms of monetary compensation. Shelter and food were the main "spoils" of their craft. I guess we could talk about Knights and Gladiators to talk about some of the previous centuries and the athletic environment for professional sports compared to today. You had mentioned "modern art" and my reference to those artists during previous waves of art who lived as paupers during a good portion of their life due to the system of compensation for those times in history. Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, famous singers, actors and musicians at the time also were cogs in the system of artists being "hired help" for the church, state or a court. Many of the representative artists from various periods that we admire now via their work from back in those times are admired because their work best depicts either an emerging change in the period of art or their work best depicts a representation of that particular period. Being that many of these artists and composers were hired by the courts of royalty, by the church or by the state and went through the process of their talent being identified early on were presented to the court or the church as a candidate of services for hire. Those that were not chosen had to find some means of obtaining shelter and food to survive. Had they all lived today, they would encounter contracts far different than being the court composer or the court sculptor or the church painter or the court musician or the court jester/comedian. BB

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