Re: WAY OT: Warez - A Rebuttal

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

gregor wrote:

> >At 7:18 PM -0700 9/14/00, Gregor Zavcer wrote:
> >>And yes, something with a financial goal in mind isn't art. somebody 
>who's
> >>primary goal is to earn money with his "art" isn't an artist nor is his
> work
> >>art. It's not wrong if a piece of art gets well paid. The force behind 
>the
> >>creation counts, IMO. so, computer hackers and freeware coders are
> artists.
> >>also those who first got the idea and then started with "marketing".
> >
> >But Michaelangelo, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Shakespeare were not
> >artists. Or so your statement indicates.
> >
> >Mark
> >
>
> When you got ordered to do something, then it's not art, it's craft.
>
> gregor

can you explain the difference between an order and a commission, gregor? 
can
art can be commissioned, but not ordered?

if the initial impetus behind the creation of a work is to feed one's 
self, yet
in the process the creator encounters a deeper order of inspiration, does 
then
the fact that one needs to eat disappear? did the creator find the deeper
inspiration without first this basic impulse? and would it be brought to 
the
light of day for others to experience if the drive to eat, i.e. survive, 
not
compel it?

i think these are significant questions that cannot be brushed aside by 
simple
rhetoric.

lance g.