Comparative Insight Artistic Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

filed capitalism's dossier
cool cash sought
equates to art defiled
unless deified...

art as struggling artist
Vincent van Gogh
insane life rejection
teeming life prolific vision

art as financial investment
Vincent van Gogh
insane life rejection
teeming life resurrection

is framed a still life
millions paid today
for a never not once
in life sold painting


Capitalism values art best
as dead works eagerly sought
from lightning stroke hand
of classical dead master

Art as investment
art valued as original
what worth a copy?
what worth living artist?

Retrospect is
is not defined value
for the market
for the masses

To echo appreciation
to echo values
what appreciation
of lessons learned?


Copyright © Terence George Craddock