Yes, very few people make a living doing art, and even fewer make a living doing the art they want. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like there's something about art that is anti-fascist and anti-capitalist. Authoritarians fear self expression, arts always seem the first to go when things get more conservative, and yet it has never stopped us. If they take everything away, we will draw on cave walls with charcoal from a fire, make dolls of corn husks, carve bones into beads, make bowls of mud, write stories in blood, make musical instruments out of anything, we will remember our history through song. We will pass these things down as evidence that we could never completely be silenced, we were here, we matter.
@RolloTreadway@RickiTarr There is a great deal of rebellion in Renaissance and Baroque art and poetry especially in the country we now call Italy. Dante, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and even Galileo pushed the envelope of the state and religious hierarchies of Medieval Europe. It is what the Enlightenment sought to rekindle in the 18th and 19th centuries.