What use are
artists? Where would we be without them? Is there any room for fair
wages, for a fair contribution to our society?
When I talk about
art in the context of society, I am talking about culture, culture is
the summation of the art we make, the tangible expression of the
multitudes.
Culture is like
the litmus paper of a peoples time and place, it tells us about a
societies health, interests, where it has come from and hints at
where its heading to. As well as showing our attitudes and emotional
state culture is also a record of our efforts; like a
sketch book of progress where ideas are hashed out and information is
ruminated on, ready to progress to the next stage.
Take Leonardo da
Vinci, he had a passion for understanding things and explaining them.
His visionary output and enquiry was both scientific and artistic in
nature. In experimenting and expressing himself he left a huge legacy
to art, science and in particular technical drawing. Consider his
legacy to the world of technical drawing and then consider that
technical drawings underpin and makes possible the creation of almost
everything, from the computer you are using now, to our road systems.
How can we measure the value in supporting Leonardo in his life so
that he could do the things he did? Few of us are as gifted as
Leonardo but it bares thinking about these intangible legacies that
we add to our culture as a whole.
Next week,
"lifes not fair" is not a good enough answer! struggeling with the hard to define; value, in part 2 of, Getting paid, paying you're way.
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