Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 08, 2015

“You can call yourself an artist if you want, and you’d technically be right, but what’s the point if no one else sees you that way? You would need to create something others would want to be called an artist.” ^Again, the fact that it’s subjective negates that. That’s why there’s “Pot Art”. John Mellencamp and others made music that later became categorized as “Roots Rock”, because some felt that to be “commercial” wasn’t _"real art", but instead to them equated to “selling out”. The same for some in the “Punk/New Wave” genre. The same for what some “derided” as “Arena/Corporate Rock” (Styx, REO Speedwagon, Toto). Art can be something that can be “taken for granted”, and only “in demand” upon an artists’ death. Art can be the most popular thing. Art can be the least popular. It doesn’t mean that all artwork done by people is good, it doesn’t mean that all popular artwork done by people is good. It doesn’t mean that it’s all bad, either. The scope of human artwork is all subjective .. One group appreciates this, another, that. But you will get different people saying different things is art, to them ….