In the current era of unimpeded capital flow, "art" is no longer so pure, and both artists and art appreciators are coerced by the "interests" of the market, resulting in countless devaluations of art works. But it is undeniable that marketing is indispensable for artworks, after all, artists also have to eat.
In fact, the biggest contradiction between the art market and works of art lies in intellectual property rights. After the protection of intellectual property rights is improved, the market and works should be mutually accomplished, and intellectual property rights are the bottom line that cannot be touched between the two. Therefore, I believe that intellectual property rights and market circulation should be guaranteed by clear laws, and a sound social organization should maintain procedural justice and moral quality. However, there is still a long way to go to realize this desire.
It is so difficult to make the makers of fakes pay in the film, but in the current real life, there is already a bigger problem in front of people - AI. The development of technology has made it easy for AI to create art, not only to copy paintings, but also to create music. In a few decades, it is very likely that the art that people enjoy will come from AI. At that time, it will become meaningless to entangle the relationship between the art market and art works, because art will no longer represent the spiritual effort of the artist, but A few strings of code, a few machine learnings.
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