“art is a luxury” is such a disgustingly capitalist concept. the need to make and engage with art, to have beauty and creation, is absolutely fundamental to humans. art should be a human right.
quick somebody add the bread and puppet cheap art manifesto
you deserve to have cheap and plentiful art in your life. however, you are not entitled to the products of a craftsman’s skilled labor without fair compensation. like, you deserve good food, but dining and dashing is still a shit move. artists aren’t elitist snobs for pricing their work above your means to obtain it, they’re human beings who need to eat.
learn to make and engage with art, learn to find free art, go to the library, go to the museum, roam around the creative commons on the internet, follow and subscribe to working artists and curate/promote their work as you enjoy it. art should be abundant and enriching, and there are a lot of anticapitalist ways to immerse yourself in art without demanding the uncompensated labor of artists who are themselves struggling to survive capitalism.
