Not artists. There are songwriters that could be word artists that "paint" a feeling. I'm not even sure if writers are artists, but just wordsmiths.
I'm a Bauhaus guy and the philosophy of Gropius is that artists are craftsman first. Only when the craft is outstanding that it becomes art. (Its great because then slime that produce crap and call it art aren't artists because they have no craft.) So is anyone that does their craft to such a degree an artist? I don't think so. A baker that does amazing things is still a baker. Art implies more than that — even Gropius changed his mind.
The problem is the media and pop culture. it makes superheros out of some good looking kid because the recording studio can modify his/her voice. Then the media is all over it for all the ET and TMZ watchers out there. These people are raised to some god-like status, and artist is a fairly lofty title. I'm an artist, not by my calling, but by other artists that tell me so.
IIN I find it annoying when a singer is referred to as an artist?
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Not artists. There are songwriters that could be word artists that "paint" a feeling. I'm not even sure if writers are artists, but just wordsmiths.
I'm a Bauhaus guy and the philosophy of Gropius is that artists are craftsman first. Only when the craft is outstanding that it becomes art. (Its great because then slime that produce crap and call it art aren't artists because they have no craft.) So is anyone that does their craft to such a degree an artist? I don't think so. A baker that does amazing things is still a baker. Art implies more than that — even Gropius changed his mind.
The problem is the media and pop culture. it makes superheros out of some good looking kid because the recording studio can modify his/her voice. Then the media is all over it for all the ET and TMZ watchers out there. These people are raised to some god-like status, and artist is a fairly lofty title. I'm an artist, not by my calling, but by other artists that tell me so.