Art: What have we become?

Just my little rant on art and how people take advantage of the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

True forms art often goes unnoticed 

And sometimes undefined

Six million dollars

For three painted lines?

Not only is this rubbish

It's pure show of class

Spending millions of dollars

On something that's pure trash. 

To whom is this art?

Scribbles on a canvas, 

It must take them twenty minutes, 

Then they make out like a bandit, 

With some poor rich mans money, 

Who chose to waste his gift

Instead of helping the poor, 

He wears hundreds on his wrist

In the name of being "sophisticated"

And from a higher class, 

Hiding the simple fact

That he is really rather crass. 

And what about the artist, 

Who cannot value art?

Playing a painting off as beauty

Desperately lacking heart.

Heart is what makes a painting

Or writing, or craft. 

Without heart, the art is like the artist;

Pointless and daft. 

Reviews

[ANTO]

We're on the same page on this subject. I know several artists who are truly talented and having to churn out portraits at 40 quid a pop while someone who the art world chooses to endear displays an unmade bed as an installation an becomes super rich. Something wrong there!!!
Nice piece of soapbox poetry Nichole.

[Myenigma]

"Heart is what makes a painting
Or writing, or craft. "
I like the subject matter in this poem. Art is subjective, but in many cases inferior pieces of works get more 'fame'' (in movies, music, books) while real talented pieces of work get overlooked.