Arts, general, audience.  ---  .This section is about the general nature of arts audiences.  Topics include: ( ) Society and art.  ---  1/24/2006

Arts, general, audience.  ---  (1) Cathartic requirements of individual art producer or consumer.  (2) Knowledge requirements of individual.  What you know.  What you don't know.  What you need to know.  (3) Problems individual faced with in his/her life.  ---  12/30/1992

Arts, general, audience.  ---  A bidding war at the auction house.  "I want it.", says one art collector.  "No, I want it.", says the other art collector.  "I can pay one million dollars.", says one art collector.  "I can pay two million dollars.", says the the other art collector.  In this case, the artwork has become a plaything of the rich.  The artwork has become a way for the rich to exercise their power.  ---  7/22/2006

Arts, general, audience.  ---  A persons interpretation of artwork depends on their past history, present mood, environment and heredity, etc.  Two people see the same thing two different ways.  ---  12/30/1992

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Art by and for different ages, sexes, classes etc.  Different people have different psychological needs.  ---  12/30/1992

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Audience clapping at the wrong time.  Every performer eventually experiences a situation where the audience claps when it should not, and does not clap when it should.  For example, sometimes the audience claps when the performance is below average and does not clap when the performance is above average.  The performer should not rely completely on audience response.  (2) Other examples of the "audience clapping at the wrong time" phenomena.  Polite applause can be insincere.  Sometimes any reaction, even booing, is good.  ---  2/10/2003

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Audience is synonymous with what other terms?  Consumers.  Collectors.  Fans.  ---  7/22/2006

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Audience.  (1) Each audience has its wants and needs.  (2) Each audience has its limits of what it can understand with explanation.  Each audience has its limits of what it can understand without explanation.  (3) Each audience has its limits of what it will accept.  Limits of what it will accept as true as opposed to not believing.  Limits of what it will accept as good as opposed to considering taboo.  ---  4/25/2002

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Audience.  (1) Potential audience for a work.  Everyone?  Not really.  (2) Actual audience for a work.  Those who can afford to buy it?  Those who have time to read it?  Those who can understand it?  ---  3/29/2002

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Audience's attitude toward artwork, artist, and audience itself.  (1) What should be the attitude of the audience toward the work of art?  Some people give too much respect to the work of art, and begin to fetishize the object.  Other people give too little respect to works of art, and throw out masterpieces.  (2) What should be the attitude of the audience toward the artist?  Some people glorify the artist, some people worship the artist.  Some people heap their ideals upon the artist, sometimes unfairly.  The artist sometimes becomes the target of the audiences hopes and dreams, and other times fear and anger.  Other people treat artists like bums or parasites, and thus give too little credit to the artist.  (3) What should be the attitude of the audience toward itself?  Some people take themselves too seriously.  Other people don't take themselves seriously enough.  ---  7/22/2006

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Creating audience-specific art.  Putting the message in words the audience can understand.  ---  6/7/2004

Arts, general, audience.  ---  How much time and energy an audience devotes to art.  What kind of art they like and dislike and why.  ---  6/3/2004

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Many artists say the same basic thing different ways.  Do two artists ever say the exact same thing twice?  Will one consumer "get" (understand) an idea or emotion one way and not another?  ---  12/30/1992

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Three bad situations.  (1) When art becomes merely an investment for the collector, then you should not call it "art" anymore, you should call it "finance".  (2) When art becomes merely an object of ownership for the collector, then you should not call it "art" anymore, you should call it "property".  (3) When art becomes merely a status symbol for the collector, then you should not all it "art" anymore, you should call it "a trophy" (or "atrophy").  ---  7/22/2006

Arts, general, audience.  ---  Totally preaching vs. totally pleasing (no challenge).  Totally obscure vs. totally popular.  ---  12/30/1992