"Scoping the Audience"/ "Thomas Kinkade"

A lot of artists and those on the outside of the art- see an artists work as a personal creation. This text shows another side to this thought. Art is not created for the artist alone, whether intended to or not, the audience makes the art what it is. An artist may create a piece of art and to them it is just another creation of there's; but as soon as there are other's involved, they are the ones who critique and categories it. "Scoping the Audience" section really made me realize that as an artist we can focus our art work towards a certain group of people or we can not at all; but either way the role that the audience plays is important.

Thomas Kinkade is a perfect example of an artist who targets his audience. It is no secret that when he creates a new piece, it is not only for himself, but to please the people that will be looking at and buying it. His work is something that can appeal to a very wide variety of people and is not just focused in on any specific type of people. This is something that we as artists must think about- do we care who likes our work and do we want to let the audience that will like it influence the direction that we take it. I believe that subconsciously artists always have the audience (whom ever that may be) in the back of their minds and it comes out in their pieces. With out the audience our art is merely work on paper, we should try to show it and let the audience determine what our art is; that is not to say that you must agree with them, but criticism, good or bad, is always helpful.