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22/05/2012

 
Question : Should an artist accept these times of financial hardship and lower the prices of their art, to make it more possible to sell what are essentially, luxury items?

This was a question I posted recently on the Facebook page, thank you to Dawn and Shirin for these replies:
  • "I always think of this little story about Winston Churchill : "During the Second World War, Winston Churchill’s finance minister said Britain should cut arts funding to support the war effort. Churchill’s response: “Then what are we fighting for?”
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    - " I don't know if the question is 'should', because we find we HAVE to..maybe a better question is where are the people with means to support the arts & help sustain work by buying at a good time "
 
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  1. face to face23 July 2012 at 15:57

    Hi. I used to work in ortugal, but I am now based in the UK. WRT the recession what we have found over here is that consumers (for art)have split into 2 types - thos that have money and those that have a little money. So what everyone is doing is keeping their premier line of work at pre-recession prices and then producing a whole new range of smaller, less expensive work.

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