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I'm an artist. I don't expect payment for anything unless I meet someone who wants the item I make, the art object. I may be willing to sell the object or not.
I spose if I were to sell something I made (which I have) it'd be up to me to negotiate terms of sale.
I don't see just giving money to 'an artist' just because they make art. to me it's just a matter of selling objects or not. or I spose selling groups of words if your a writer (which is of course an art) or whatever art an artist happens to make.
in the case of public art...well..I've also worked on alot of stuff that was paid for as 1% for the arts on a public works project. in the form of architectural elements (metalwork-sculpture actually) some items were practical elements (like a gate designed by an artist) or decoration. public art often makes use of the industrial arts and employs alot of non-artists, generates further economic activity like steel sales, welding shops, truckers, painters ( I mean like industrial painting not tormented lone oil painters) engineers etc. all sorts of work-a-day joes just trying to earn a living.
can anyone define art ? I've tried and I can't narrow it down much more than to say it's human communication. words, images, movement (dance), sounds, objects...a person using whatever she/he can to communicate an idea or evoke an emotion.
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