Value Of Art
Often I forget about the vast amount of museums and sites that are accessible to a person no matter where they are in the world. The virtual trip through Guggenheim's photographic images of the Stone Wall riots, the Berkeyly Riots, and events such as the African apartheid was a sobering reminder of how important a single image can be to the world. Many of the images show the struggle for civil rights across the globe. Often I worry that art, digital, graphic, or photography is often dismissed by our society as a hobby with little discussion on how it can influence, or reflect history.
Is it possible that we can change this common misconception that art, in truth, is not a disposable medium for a hobbyist, but a powerful and invaluable tool that defines our society? Is it possible to erase all those times I was told as a child, that the path to being an artist leads to starvation and that an artist's value is merely rooted in one's ability to earn a living? Perhaps art is taken for granted, not out of its displaced value, but because it saturates our environment every day with catchy tv commercials, bold graphic magazine ads, colorful Instagram posts and is pasted on the walls as an accent to our expensive couches. Creative commonplace seems to be more about adornment rather than the power of its unbridled ability to drive the direction of society.
10-minute doodle
Noteworthy Class takeaways
- Use Spark pages more. This could be an easier way to send a targeted section of images to a client with specific needs and looks more professional than lightroom galleries. As a bonus, it's extremely easy to toss together right out of the lightroom.
- test https://spark.adobe.com/page/RvfQGF0kprixw/
- Pay attention to copyright more, especially with fonts, look into elements.envato.com
- check out a book called Cheese Monkey
- play more with what you pay for... stay out of the lightroom photoshop bubble
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