Art for Art’s Sake
Why are we neglecting our children’s creative needs?
Maslow didn’t say stop at the fourth rung. “Wait!” he cried, “I only put the top one in for a giggle. That self-actualisation stuff was just padding to get me over my word count for my final thesis”.
Our children are suffering from a lack of creative fulfilment which will undoubtedly impact their adult lives. We are responsible for this neglect of our future generation and for allowing this situation to continue.
We’ve lost sight of what makes us human, the gift of imagination that consciousness gives us ‘enlightened’ beings to raise us above the level of a drone army serving the capitalist market leaders.
We’ve stopped valuing creativity in a qualitative way and, as a society, we have drifted towards a more quantitative valuation based on art as an investment.
We now purchase art based on how it will ‘hold its value’, and instead of being excited about which artists are ‘up and coming’, (partly so that we can show off our talent for spotting blossoming talent), we now seek out the ‘next big thing’ so that we can get in early and buy before the market price soars, and our ̶i̶n̶v̶e̶s̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ piece of art can pay off the mortgage.
“For some collectors, art is being treated as a capital asset in…
