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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Enam Luf who wrote (605041)8/17/2004 7:03:24 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
<<all i'm saying is that the artist does have a moral obligation to at least try to entertain the audience in a way that they will find gratifying.>>

Boy i strongly disagree. Maybe we're blurring the lines between artist and entertainer.

But a painter has no obligation to paint in a way that will gratify viewers. An artist creates art and the public does with it what they will, no matter how (or if) the artist chooses to share their art with the public.

Bob Dylan pissed off a lot of people when he went electric. Considering what entertains the public is actually probably antithetical to art.

<<to knowingly and purposely piss off people who paid good money to see you and be happily entertained, is, imho, tatamount to theft.>>

Unless it's some kind of artistic statement.

But obviously there's art and there's the entertainment business which are very different things. Still, without the artist there would be no business, so ultimately the business must defer to the artist.

Steve Dietrich
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