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Old 07-06-2008, 06:23 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post

Forget artistic integrity. Any artist who wants to make a living at her art does what the patron wants. The integrity comes in executing the commission as well as possible. Michaelangelo is famed over the world as a great artist precisely because of that bespoke work to order. And in the case of Michaelangelo and fellows, it's not like they were being asked to do stuff they didn't want to do. They were devout Catholics, and working for the church depicting religious scenes. They might well have done the same sort of work if they were wealthy and doing it for pleasure instead of a living.

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Well sometimes it works out that the artist does what they want, and then finds a patron who is willing to fund what the artist wants to do.

That was always my idea of what the patronage system should be. The artist should have a patron who shares their artistic viewpoint. In an ideal universe that is.
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