- Technology has given society countless new ways to connect, watch, publish and make money. One of the biggest apps today, instagram, has given artists a simple way to get their work in the world . Instagram is used by nearly everyone with a cell phone, on average 95 million photos and videos are posted to Instagram per day. Artist can simply post a work of art and tag a few hashtags to their post and instantly the algorithms behind Instagram will get that specific photo in front of millions of users. Not only can Instagram bring an artist from being a less to being a social medi star, but it can also be a source of making money. Certain companies ask Instagram stars to sponsee their post, meaning they tag the companies name and have some sort of description and the artist can generate currency from this platform, so what’s the issue with Instagram? You can easily publish art and even make money from a free post? What the issue is is that it does not have the same level of class or esteem as let’s say, a piece placed in a musesuem. What do you think? Is Instagram a valid way to publish art? Or is it just a way for the common people to feel like artist?
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Is Instagram the new way to publish Art?
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I think it's cool that any artist can have a platform to present their art to the public. In a way, I think before social media a lot of art must have never reached the masses or even given the chance to make it out of the artist's studio. For that reason, I support that social media gives all people a platform to express themselves through art and certainly believe that it's a valid way to publish art. Museums are great, but I don't think an artist should be limited by a museum. Also, I don't think there's really a big difference between a common person and an artist. Everyone in some way expresses themselves through an art (music, singing, writing, acting, etc.), and anyone can become an artist.
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