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[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Brian

Interesting. Who are they?
I wonder if they have to somehow cloak their affiliation to get shelf space in some of the more evangelical domains.

Jim Christensen, Arnold Friberg, Greg Olsen, Liz Lemon Swindle, Simon Dewey, Del Parson. I'm not purporting that all of these should be called brilliant artists, but in the world of Christian, commercial art they are all hot commodities.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by jay santos

This wouldn't impress this group, I'm sure, but of the top 10 or so commercial, Christian artists, almost half of them are LDS.

I wouldn't know but if you say so.

Making money is fine, even if it is with art. However, from what little I understand of artists, and it is very little, many serious artists show disdain for the "sell-outs" of commercial art, contending as I understand it that they only produce fluff, no real meaningful expression.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by hyrum

The top two commercial hamburger chefs are McDonalds and Burger King.

Thanks for that. I clearly understand most of this crowd wouldn't be impressed with Christian art. But it's one of my hobbies and I thought it might be interesting to a few.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I wouldn't know but if you say so.

Making money is fine, even if it is with art. However, from what little I understand of artists, and it is very little, many serious artists show disdain for the "sell-outs" of commercial art, contending as I understand it that they only produce fluff, no real meaningful expression.

Yes, I understand that. The reason I used the word commercial was to make that distinction clear.

[MikeWaters]

Fellas, it's always ok to start a new topic in a new thread.

Sticking to a huge thread makes things unmanageable, and people stop paying attention.

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death

do you have a source?

You can poke around at this site

http://www.christcenteredart.com/

Buying and selling Christian art is one of my hobbies. The 4/10 is my opinion but you can look around that site to get a feel for how popular different artists and paintings are right now.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Fellas, it's always ok to start a new topic in a new thread.

Sticking to a huge thread makes things unmanageable, and people stop paying attention.

we want to see how how many topics we can broach.
I'm doing a graph visualization research proposal, this thread makes an interesting graph, rich with nodes and edges. I will soon know, via complex analysis, who among you have terrorist ties, and you will find a ticking W-76 in your front yard.

Keep it going lads, there is justice to be served!

[SeattleUte]

I think CaliCoug said this before but what a travesty that the BYU law school is named after J. Reuben Clark rather than its founding dean who was alslo BYU's greatest president and gave all he had to BYU even literally till his last breath, while bypassing huge potential secular opportunities.

[Brian]

So what is everyone's favorite pizza topping?

first on my list is sauce.

Regards,
Brian

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Riled up? I am perfectly calm. See the smiley faces?



World class museums are not cheap. Not by a long shot. And they rarely make money.



If anyone made that argument then I must have missed it. I certainly did not. It's simply a debate on the scale of the problem. I am just trying to maintain a little balance to the debate. The CB crowd tends to deny any academic freedom issues exist and the CG crowd tends to exaggerate the problem. IMO, anyway.

Peace, brother.

lol! There is the Lebowski I know and love!