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Alexis is right though. Nowadays most art projects are actually a hook for a Kickstarter or something.

Careful of the huge confirmation bias inherent in the art you see vs. the art that's being created. Your spheres (not you specifically -- all of HN) likely tend toward exposing you to those kinds of projects.

What makes you think so?

Out of all of the art that is done I am pretty sure only a portion are a hook for a Kickstarter or marketing material.

I'd be surprised if 0.001% of art projects are related to Kickstarter in any way, or even if 0.001% of artists have even heard of Kickstarter. Maybe in SV it's different.

This one definitely isn't..

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/05/petr-pav...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/russian-artist-...

Most worthwhile art is done by people who look at life as a different type of quantity. Whether valued higher or lower, the different outlook is really what makes for interesting art.

... Or even, dare I say it, look at life as quality not quantity, as something unquantifiable?

(You could have chosen a less contentious example of a meritorious practicing artist :-)

I'd say just the concept of Russian Roulette is art in itself. Thereby the artist I referenced above is not very contentious. He is risking his life for a message - that gamble with life is art.

On the same note, what may be more contentious is the art of crime. The art of murder. The art of Sherlock Holmes deciphering the creative tendencies behind the craftiest of criminals. Murderers. Thieves.

Are terrorists also artists? That my friend, is contentious.

he's not even close to right.

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