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I have worked in various parts of the game industry from 1981 through today. I have paid hundreds of artists to do art. I have hired artists. I have worked closely with large teams of artists. We don't pay artists to do "fine art" any more it is true. But we absolutely pay them for art. Here's two pieces of art I paid for. One is a color image, the other a 3-d model; respectively the modern version of a painting & a sculpture. You may or may not like what they did but two artists got paid lots of dollars for these works.

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@GPrime85 One of my favorite moments is the ponch you give yourself 😅

@GPrime85 Are you really that short?

@GPrime85 Sadly here in Portland our tax money that is tagged for public arts which would be used for that sort of stuff is mostly embezzled, given away, or never used.

@GPrime85 We tried.

@GPrime85 I want to commission an artist to make some illustrations for a children's book I've written. Where do I look to begin?

@GPrime85 We should go back to the times where artists had stupid rich sugar daddies

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@GPrime85 @QuetzalPhoenix The problem is that good artists are rare thus people have to pay a premium much more than they want to. More people would pay if that premium was lower ergo the root problem is that we need more good artists

@GPrime85 I don’t think the potential hiring pool of modern day artists really includes anyone who can sculpt marble statues or classical facades, they mainly just do digital porn

@GPrime85 Hire who? Your art is terrible dude. People still pay a lot of money for art that isn't terrible and museums are still full of great art, but you make hideously ugly and unfunny cartoons for twitter so that world has nothing to do with you.

@GPrime85 I can only imagine the struggles. It’s why all our buildings look like brutalistic boxes.

@GPrime85 If I ever make a comic series successfully how much would I have to pay you to make a front cover for one of the books ? (Several characters, complex color & shading)

@GPrime85 Ill pay you in exposure :D

@GPrime85 @grok Who paid Michelangelo to create his famous David statue pictured in this comic?

@GPrime85 What they produce if you pay them:

@GPrime85 I always hate that argument They look at a ornate piece of architecture and say "why dont we make things like this anymore?" Cost The reason is cost You could 100% hire someone to make a drain pipe like this But you wont because a normal aluminum one costs $20

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If I had the resources, I’d fund a new renaissance. I can’t fund civic projects. Heck, my vote won’t elect people who will make these kinds of civic projects, because once they get in office, they don’t vote for what I want anyway. And artists? MOST artists are trained to despise the classics. I would know. I took art classes with them. Most are chasing rabbits. One rabbit is porn. Another rabbit is modern. Another rabbit is DEI. The ones who do fine art are few and far between, and after being beaten over the head with postmodernism, only the ones who truly love it still do it, in my experience. I once sat in class with a girl who switched between 3 separate furry personas who would all talk about each other in the third person. That’s your average college artist nowadays. But as a poor who is working towards something approximating a good living, I am picky about patronage. I don’t go to modern art museums. I don’t give attention to bad art except to critique it. I can’t create the kind of art I want to see, but one day maybe I can afford to bring it home. But I will talk about how much I want fine art back. That much I can do.

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@GPrime85 Another question would be with what kind of mindset art is made. The rich guy in this cartoon has clearly some defeatism issues that he may can´t explain what art he wished to be made (except sloppy copies of "greatness" instead of creating a own "art language" with the artist).

@GPrime85 It's true. The problem existed long before AI art was a thing. Somewhere along the lines society decided that art wasn't worth paying for.

@GPrime85 @ZubyMusic This is so true. I see beautiful artwork from online artists whose names are unknown, and then the city or college pays some modern dusche 1 million dollars to construct a noodle in the park or on the campus.

@GPrime85 Make great works regardless of pay.

@GPrime85 Before my finances got out into a chokehold I was like this. Just tossing money and ideas at a single nice artist, never bothering him for updates, and just let him have at it. It was nice.

@GPrime85 Someone has never dealt with furries, I see. Their Art Commissions market is worth about 100 million USD annually

@GPrime85 When you pay a modern "artist" for "art":

@GPrime85 Rich people are paying for like gay propaganda and unlimited migration propaganda. Or blowing another trillion on Africa. They absolutely should be spending their money on stuff like this instead...

@GPrime85 When was the last time someone sculpted in marble?

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@GPrime85 We can't deny the problem of this

@GPrime85 If only our wealthiest would commission beautiful works of art and architecture simply so they could exist through time. Unfortunately that isn't the case anymore.