I cross posted this in the Art Talk community, where it may not get as many eyes, but it may get some Arty eyes on it.

I recently wrote a post called "Art is a Threat" @holoz0r/art-is-a-threat and it touches on some similar themes and generated a bit of discussion, just as I hope this one will.

There are so many different "schools" of Art when it comes to creation.

There are artists who are talented, and make a quiet living doing work on the basis of commissions form people who want something in their style. Sometimes these people are classically trained in Art, other times, its just something that they have always done.

There are the "employee artists" who work in creative industries, producing advertising, visual effects for movies or TV, video games or other media that is consumed in the public sphere. These generally have a very high level of technical skill.

There are "career artists" who are "classically trained" by Art schools, university or constructs of academia, who tend to do the networking, the build up, and end up slowly in larger and larger collections.

There are the grifters, who are artists, but go and apply for every single grant. The persistence may be viewed as passion, but the work is often technically poor, and the themes, context and narrative poorly constructed.

There are the people like me, who went to Art school, to tell stories, and ended up building careers in other fields and doing Art "on the side".

There are dozens of other tropes, including the nft artists who may have a combination of any of the above.

Ultimately, modernity showed that anyone can be an artist, and anything can be Art. But there is one thing that all Art must share- and that is intent.

The artist may be expressing intent with work that is completely unclear to the purchaser, or due to the purchasers ignorance, the intent is interpreted or understood correctly.

Then of course, there are a whole bunch of financial levers attached to the Art world, tax breaks, Art as an investment / insurance claim event, and so much more.

Art touches everything and all we do as a society.

Artists do not get paid equitably. For the contribution and cohesion that they provide to society, they are criminally cast out to the fringes on the balance, and something has to change.