Some say the essence of art should preclude the superficial things, in this case, financial funding. Although, I do understand the sentiments of the people having this point of view, I, however, stand with a stance that opposes this notion. I personally believe financial funding by an authorized central authority would only help elevate the arts’ status level and increase public acceptability.
There are multiple instances that support such a notion, say, for example, a lot of people refrain from pursuing a career in the field of fine arts despite having a lot of interest in it. The only possible reason for this is the lack of competitive salary compensated for persons in this field. As capitalism has climbed higher than ever before in human history, everyone is talking about productivity and return value; we don't want our hard work to go to waste, therefore the arts appear odd. Art, in the opinion of the majority of people, is not productive, and only a few artists can become famous and financially self-sufficient, merely 1%.
The rest keep on either toiling for the rest of their lives or entirely stop what they’re doing due to lack of funds to support them. This is ironic given that we, as humans love to consume art in some form of the other, be it photographs or films. But if asked if we’d pursue this field, most people will definitely refuse for the above stated reasons apart from other non-related reasons. This is why I believe government funding will ensure financial profitability of the artists.
However, there have been instances in the past wherein the artistrocrats had complete autonomy over the arts which controlled the artists’ creativity and freedom. Some might say the government could ban certain themes which would limit freedom of expression. Or they would use art as a propaganda, as was done in the centuries previous to ours. Given we are progressing more towards modernism, I believe there would be democracy ensured if the government ever decides to maintain a budget for the art society.
Overall, I believe that government support is critical to ensuring that the arts thrive and are accessible to the general population.
Some
say the essence of
art
should preclude the superficial things,
in this case
, financial funding. Although, I do understand the sentiments of the
people
having this point of view, I,
however
, stand with a stance that opposes this notion. I
personally
believe
financial funding by an authorized central authority would
only
help
elevate the
arts’
status level and increase public acceptability.
There are multiple instances that support such a notion, say,
for example
,
a lot of
people
refrain from pursuing a career in the field of fine
arts
despite having
a lot of
interest in it. The
only
possible reason for this is the lack of competitive salary compensated for persons in this field. As capitalism has climbed higher than ever
before
in human history, everyone is talking about productivity and return value; we don't want our
hard
work to go to waste,
therefore
the
arts
appear odd.
Art
, in the opinion of the majority of
people
, is not productive, and
only
a few artists can become
famous
and
financially
self-sufficient,
merely
1%.
The rest
keep
on either toiling for the rest of their
lives
or
entirely
stop
what they’re doing due to lack of funds to support them. This is ironic
given
that we, as humans
love
to consume
art
in
some
form of the other, be it photographs or films.
But
if asked
if
we’d pursue this field, most
people
will definitely refuse for the above stated reasons apart from other non-related reasons. This is why I
believe
government
funding will ensure financial profitability of the artists.
However
, there have been instances in the past wherein the
artistrocrats
had complete autonomy over the
arts
which controlled the artists’ creativity and freedom.
Some
might say the
government
could ban certain themes which would limit freedom of expression. Or they would
use
art
as a propaganda, as
was done
in the centuries previous to ours.
Given
we are progressing more towards modernism, I
believe
there would be democracy ensured if the
government
ever decides to maintain a budget for the
art
society.
Overall
, I
believe
that
government
support is critical to ensuring that the
arts
thrive and are accessible to the general population.