Art Serving Capitalism
What is capitalism? Answers.com says that it is “an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.” ("Answers.com")
Okay now let’s try that in English. Basically America is capitalism; it is a bunch of corporations that hire people to make money. Then those employees make money which is good. What is art? Based again on Answers.com it has many definitions. It is a work of nature, color, movement, a body painted on a piece of paper. Art can be anything that you want it to be. Now whether or not you would actually buy or sell that piece of art is up to you. That is the beautiful freedoms of being able to have art serve capitalism, because hey you never know; you could be the next Picasso. Art serving capitalism is basically a person who makes art and sells it to profit from it by making money. That isn’t a bad thing. Especially if take that art and make it into a gallery. Then people would come to pay to get into the gallery to see your art and in even in your gallery you can list prices for your artwork so you can make profit of your work. The only bad part about it is; is that people can steal from your artwork and sometimes you may not even know it. Then that person makes money stealing of your artwork and makes profit from that. So if you are an artist make sure that if you want to be serving capitalism that you protect your work, because it is that easy to just take a picture of it or see it online and make a few changes to it and call it theirs. In conclusion, art serving capitalism has it good sides and its bad sides.
MLA Format
"Capitalism." Answers.com. Answers Corporation, 2010. Web. 16 Sep 2010. http://www.answers.com/topic/capitalism>.
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