THE ECONOMICS OF MONUMENTAL AND CLASSICAL PAINTING This isn’t just a painting it

THE ECONOMICS OF MONUMENTAL AND CLASSICAL PAINTING
This isn’t just a painting it’s a monumental painting, 24 feet on a side. It took Jordaens 5 years and he died before he finished it. If the median income in the USA is 75,000, thats 450,000 before we talk the cost of material. What artist, without a commissioned sponsor, can spend five years without income to produce a painting on speculation? (none).

Economics drive art. If you’re a painter you need to supply X galleries with Y paintings and that means you have to produce Z paintings per year. That means that you have 2030 hours / Z paintings per year per painting. And you have to only assume some small percent of Z paintings will sell.

This is why no one makes monumental art. Without Aristocracy, Nobility, Church, or State, monumental art in the form of ‘high hart’, is economically impossible.

And governments have overspent so much for so long creating so much debt – and they demonstrate such ‘bad taste’ and recieve so much criticism when they exercise it, that there is literally no one other than the wealthy buying status signals to feed investment in ‘high art’.

See “high art”.

Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation

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