The Painted Word by Tom Wolf (Harpers)

It's rather funny how people fall into cliches just by trying to avoid them. Like the bohemians trying to avoid the rich. But painters just want to paint, not be a monkey producing what they are told to produce. This article talked about how art is all about statements, and people buy art because they understand it, or someone else told them how to understand it, aka it is worth money. Pop art came about because it was kinda realistic, but it was also expressive.