Channel 4 tonight - what price art

[zenie]

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/W/what_price_art/

Looks good.

Not sure if this should be in here or sobbing and nobbing.

Any comments on this?

Will add my comments later must work right now!!!

In fact the link asks you to vote on some important questions

Do women artists still have to choose between starting a family and a career in art?

Yes, they can't succeed at both
Yes, because the art world is still run by men
No, but women will always struggle to make it to the top
No, there's no reason why a woman can't be a successful artist AND a mother
Undecided


Do female artists still have to work harder than male artists to succeed in the art world?

Yes
No
Undecided

I can feel a poll coming on

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

eh? is it not the old argument that to do something you need to spend X amount of time on it so if you decide to do Y you won't be as sucsessfull in X?

now replace X with art and Y with motherhood

so unless art is about knocking out a quick painting over lunch ANY other serious comitment will effect your performance ?

sound like a non argument to me ... i spose you might find that raising a family causes inspiration in your work ... i think large scale comitments such as raising a family will effect you no matter what you do be it art or otherwise but it doesn't nesaceraly meant you will be any worse at the job just the amount of time you can spend on it will change

 

[zenie]

Good post Shippy

Well the second question was of more importance to me I suppose.

As for your equation you’re probably right, although I think this isn’t hinting at the time constraints and more the art world’s possible views of mothers as artists, and women as artists as a whole. The fact that they aren’t taken seriously as men?

Is there a reason behind why this quote is not so much shocking but disappointing?

In 2005, Art Review published a list of the 100 most powerful people in the art world. In the top 30, there was only one woman – and she was a collector and not an artist.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

well first i would ask how many other peope in that list wenrt artists... if there were a large number of people who working in art but were not actully artists then the fact she was a colector wouldn't matter.

as for the issues of talent it may well be a statistical fluke that many of the sucsessfull artists happen to be male i don't know the art world well enough to judge on that

 

[zenie]

This is on now by the way