Does Art Suffer or Thrive In a Depression?
Question from a reader:”Does art suffer or thrive in a financial depression?” My answer is that art is art. When times are good and times are bad, creative souls will always try to express what is going on in their lives. If they touch a chord with somebody they get a fan. If they touch a chord with a lot of people they develop a following. Hopefully this happens before the artist dies. There are creative people who through their gifts can speak for what is happening all around them. They may do this through the written word, movies, television, dance, song, sculpture and anything else that I missed in covering forms of creative expression. Did they do this because they calculated that their work was at the right place, at the right time and that they knew they’d be representing their generation, their age group or what have you? Of course not. What it means is that if you have something that you want to do creatively, just do it. Don’t try and figure out whether you are doing somethin
