Art Stars/ Top 100

There are millions of artists in the world. Many of which make their careers by making little cash and calling themselves artists. Some make their careers by becoming professors at an institution. Plenty of them make some money in galleries.
Why not? It’s life do what you want, in life you can do anything that the mind can imagine. Why limit yourself to being labeled as an artist. An artist in the modern day is becoming ever closer to being nothing than a corporation. Become a business man or a farmer if that’s what you want to do. Have tons of money and influence. Essentially that’s what this top one hundred artist thing is saying the top one hundred artists good at. Not necessarily their art. Like Aasta said its all dependent on what galleries you are in and how much money your work makes.
But time and time again through history we have seen artist come out of the woodwork and not even be alive any more. That’s part of the beauty of the art world. It has the power to immortalize a person. Even when the person is dead. Dealing with the modern capitalist industry and gaining fame in this life time is one way of dealing with becoming a successful artist. But it doesn’t mean that you have to do it to become famous. Or even make the best art. The top one hundred artists probably aren't even known. They are probably so far ahead in their thinking that people would not even understand a thing they create. These kinds of artists are untouched and pure. Their creativity is out of the world and unknown. These kinds of artists achieve an understanding of the world beyond what the New York and London galleries can even begin to imagine. Beyond what the Artstars can set precedent for. The actual top one hundred artists might be content with creating within their own minds exclusively. Not ever making a single work in the real world.
The life of an artist in the modern society is fleeting. up and down as Dave said. What’s the point? You can make money doing anything you want. Or make it selling art. But what’s the point in becoming one of the top one hundred artists. Just to gain power. That’s just what every other person in the world wants. Artists should be different, progressive and out of this world. Not concerned so much with achieving a world class status as a prominent gallery showman for some capitalist PIG!!!
-Aaron Treher