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[KSGLilPig at aol.com]

> So you're telling me that all the Michelangelo, Leonardo, Giotto who 
painted 
> for
>  money *never* really produced art? You sem to have stuck your foot in your
>  mouth...

Art is done as expression.  If you do it for money, it's not art.  The Mona 
Lisa (in my mind, mind you) is not art, it's a painting of a woman sitting.  
There is no expression, no commentary or deeper meaning.  What you see is 
what you get.  The same goes for the Sistine Chapel, and anything else 
created by those you named.

If you were to create "real" art (real in my mind, that is), but then try to 
make money off it, you've simply bastardized it, although it could still be 
called art, in a very loose sense of the word.

                                        Sors salutis,
                                            Philip

These are my thoughts, take them as you will.