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Any artist worth his salt would rather be true to his artistic vision than settle for everybody else’s. Gaugin, Manet, Van Gogh and Cezanne refused to toe the line of conventional wisdom and were in their time ridiculed. They were unconventional so they were called Bohemians. And many other names. The establishment that make the rules hold an idea of protecting their own interests. In order to do it they seek compromise, status quo. For this end all their viewpoints must agree on the core idea. Only that they arrive at it at the risk of losing their soul: artistic integrity.
Gaugin and other artists also had their viewpoints powered by idea. How come they speak to us beyond their own time and place whereas writ of the establishment has ceased so soon? Any painting by VanGogh or Manet is now sought after and commands astronomical prices at any auction. ( None of these would have become a painter with this in mind.)
Edgar Degas(1834-1917) French Painter
The painter once commenting about art lovers said thus, ”When a person pays 3000 francs for a painting it is because he likes it. When he pays 300,000 it is because others like it.”
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