Becoming factory art.

Hi Mark I have

“When does creative art start becoming factory art?

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My thought is that when Art becomes repetitious to satisfy the market and not satisfy creativity then it becomes factory art.

Many well known Artists get bogged down in repetition because this is what they are known for and it sells.

It becomes market driven not vision driven, so they repeat and repeat changing colours but basically it's the same painting painted over and over and that is what the market wants.

The thing about the factory is that when the painter is doing the same painting over and over is it becomes very slick, looks perfect, but it lacks soul and it lacks the chance of failure.

It always reminds me of when you walk into a house and see a picture on the wall that was from a calendar that was framed, yes it is perfect but it just lacks something and that is the chance to fail. Locked within every original painting is the chance that this might not work and that what makes it wonderful, the struggle for original thought and creativity, not the repetition of perfection.

Of course commissions can become factory paintings when it becomes repetition, the collectors always wanting the same painting, colours change but the subject basically stays the same.

If you can work on commissions only and you still have the liberty to grow and be creative and true to your original Artistic vision, then that's good business.

My only warning is beware of repetition it becomes factory work.

Art is not about the repetition of perfection it’s about painting a painting that might not work, that is part of doing original creative Art.