{"id":61188,"date":"2021-01-28T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61188"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:42:19","slug":"qotd-art-for-arts-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/qotd-art-for-arts-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Art for art&#8217;s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Th\u00e9ophile Gautier didn&#8217;t actually say &#8220;Art for art&#8217;s sake,&#8221; but even if he did, it was only about 100 years ago. The notion that a true <em>ahr-teeeeeste<\/em> would never sully his hands with shekels comes from the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em>, when a bunch of nancy boys sponging off their parents decided their works could only be properly appreciated by other useless mooches. William Shakespeare \u2014 a true artist, the finest writer in the history of the English language \u2014 would&#8217;ve laughed right in these guys&#8217; mincing little faces, because as Larry Correia says, the writer&#8217;s prime directive is GET PAID. Shakespeare worked for a living, which means he wasn&#8217;t above <a href=\"https:\/\/shakesyear.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/03\/blow-winds-and-crack-your-cheeks\/#more-98\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a fart joke<\/a>. Whatever got the job done. Ditto Mozart \u2014 <em>The Magic Flute<\/em> was the <em>Bill and Ted&#8217;s Excellent Adventure<\/em> of its day \u2014 and all the rest. The &#8220;artist&#8221; who trumpets his intention to produce &#8220;art&#8221; is a <em>poseur<\/em>, always and everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-entertainer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Entertainer&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-10-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e9ophile Gautier didn&#8217;t actually say &#8220;Art for art&#8217;s sake,&#8221; but even if he did, it was only about 100 years ago. The notion that a true ahr-teeeeeste would never sully his hands with shekels comes from the fin de si\u00e8cle, when a bunch of nancy boys sponging off their parents decided their works could only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,28,41],"tags":[102,200,1462,532,134],"class_list":["post-61188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","tag-art","tag-music","tag-severian","tag-shakespeare","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fUU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62841,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188\/revisions\/62841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}