It is part of their work. How strange when ideology offers its highest praise to exactly those artists who determinedly starve to criticize the ideology. Someone is in logical trouble. To see what is wrong, let me first set capitalism aside. It claims that artists work best constrained by their audience alone.
Art has winners and losers, it continues, like anything else.
The best artists may at times be losers, but the true genius will always carry on. Take each point in turn. Even without grants, artists depend on subsidies. They do so indirectly, since cities with a cultural climate bolstered by museums and other institutions have a thriving marketplace for any good. They do so more directly as well, since painters who earn a living often manage by taking a teaching job .