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and stockpiled in some expensive domestic library or fated to
maceration; scratched CDs.

What is fundamentally wrong is that the artist requires money
for his own productions: art would not have to be paid, it would
not have to receive money in change of itself, art is pure giving.
Nevertheless, on the other hand, the artist is a human being
that needs to eat to survive. Parodaxally, we have now to face
the fact that the ideal has come to an end: it has arrived to
annihilate itself trying to affirm itself. Consequently the concepts
of “useless and futility” of the arts is because everything can
assume an artistic value, independent and intrinsic, but without
any criterion.

Everything can become an artistic expression complete and
accomplished in itself: from the naturalistic and realistic motifs,
URSA SCHOEPPER: BALL to the conceptual and symbological ones, as well as all the
SEASON, 2019 various and different kinds of things and objects. If then today-
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ALUDIBOND, art tries to look back to its own past, it inevitably assumes a
70 X 70 CM. IN THIS SIZE vaguely academic-classicistic trend, sliding - and this is worse
AN UNIQUE - towards rhetorical imitations, conventional and artificial.
Therefore, in such a situation, it is not possible anymore to talk
about “growth and development” of the arts.

The words “growth” and “development” are by now annihilate
for a wild the speculation of genres and values. Nevertheless, a
real artist can’t and mustn’t give up. The all of the above is what
he must fight to save his gift and to continue to believe in his
task. In these strange, frantic days, more than ever, to conceive
art is an act of pure virility, an action of firmness, strength and
gentleness. ©World Of Art magazine

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