art from a forgotten time and place feels different than a living breathing artist discovered to be other than presented... also i feel for some reason static art is different than written word or performance, but i do not know that to be true.
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I can see that point.
I was a professional musician for for a couple decades and there is certainly something different in a live performance vs a recording.
Let’s extend this static idea to written word or another medium such as pottery or paintings.
Most people don’t realize the Mona Lisa we attribute a high fiat value to, was actually the static result of numerous live performances.
In other words, there were iterations of the art that resulted in what we classify as the artist work.
But what that is, is really the artistic result…
The artistic work was all the iterations that led up to the “priceless” artwork.
How many drafts of a poem or prose did the author go through before you have what we term the final draft or published work.
There is as much art(sit) and I’d argue more artist in the body of work that leads up the published item than the final item itself,
It’s the sketch books that I believe unlock the final artwork.
To that point, I think that is why improvisation (in Jazz, what I performed mostly) and in comedy as another example, are where the purest art(ists) reside.
Unlike classical music which is much more rigid… it much improv, just interpretation.
But ya know, there is a lot of art in what I do with business clients as well..I have to be able to improvise.