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   orinoco womble said, 11 months ago

   As seen on the Shopping Channel and QVC!!
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   Dogsniff said, 11 months ago

   In lieu of suffering the “starving artist” syndrome, I respectfully confess that I’m only in it for the money.
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   spamster said, 11 months ago

   all “fine” art was once commercial art
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   Kali39 said, 11 months ago

   And that, boys, is what kept QVC in business all these years.

   (and QVC stands for Quite a Volume of Crap.)
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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   @Kali39

   Ah, I’ve always wondered about that.
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   bluskies said, 11 months ago

   @Dogsniff

   Dog! What would Teresa say about that? It’s one thing to DO it; something else to air it out in public.
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   bluskies said, 11 months ago

   @kuren444

   Only the ones whose stuff doesn’t sell.
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   gmartin997 said, 11 months ago

   Great art usually boils down to two things — the eye of the beholder and how much people are willing to pay for it. Picasso is one of art’s greatest mysteries to me. His art looks like something my daughter drew on the wall with her crayons.
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   watmiwori said, 11 months ago

   @gmartin997

   You, too?? I’ve always thought that Picasso was
   just having everybody on [and getting rich in the
   process.] Exception allowed for ‘Guernica’.
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    Dha Dha said, 11 months ago

    Love you C&H
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

    Fine art?
    .
    Used to be that fine art had patrons and those patrons would tend to limit the excesses of some of the more libertine “artists”.
    .
    It wasn’t until the late 19th century that rich “wisdom-challenged” would actually PAY to have their ears assaulted by things like coloratura and excessive vibrato when the singer couldn’t hold the note. Gargling on the high notes…
    .
    Then it really got bad in the 60s. A new “classic” style of singing— the singing through the nose that has been so popular in opera and theater in recent decades. Plus you had keeping up with the Giuoneses.

    In order to impress other “wisdom-challenged” rich personsOne rich “wisdom-challenged” speaking to another: “hey, I’ve got the latest glip-glop from that new artist ‘Snotz’. It looks like the inside of an oyster, but everyone else is buying it! This one is called ‘peristalsis’.”
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    NebulousRikulau said, 11 months ago

    Smock, smock, smock, smock, smock…
    
    
    What?
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    lijothomas89 said, 11 months ago

    @Dogsniff

    atleast you accept it, that’s good.. but then you cannot call yourself an artist..
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    lijothomas89 said, 11 months ago

    @spamster

    I think the word you’re looking for is “mainstream”.. not “commercial”..

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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 11 months ago

    Attaboy, Calvin.
    Now you’re thinking like Thomas Kinkade!
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