Visual Artists and Musicians...

A visual artist needs to be like a musician that has learned his scales well first then plays other people's music then composes his own. However in our industrial, materialistic world, visual artists start selling their scale works immediately thinking that is success. Would anyone listen to scales only at a concert, no. We would learn to listen however to well played other composer's music at a concert, so artists that paint like some famous artists are getting noticed now. But the ultimate in music is when you can compose your own and captivate people. That is what a visual artist should aspire to, getting to a stage when they are composing their own work. This however can not happen without first the learning of scales and learning from master's art. So just spitting or vomiting on canvas is not enough...Our industrial society however values selling and money, ergo Damien Hirst is born, who has achieved notoriety through being a shrewed business man, knowing how to make money with his kitschy diamond studded skulls...so do we really know any more what is good art?

Art done for well being should be called Art Therapy and not Professional Art...somebody bought my 9 year old granddaughters cat painting, that does not mean my grand-daughter is a professional artist...