What is Free Art Frees Art?

If the barrier to entry is money, the poor are screwed. If it's effort, the lazy are screwed. I'd rather screw the lazy than the poor.

Free Art Frees Art is available to anyone who can be bothered to turn up and get it. You don't need to be rich. You don't need to be on an "Approved Buyers" list. You want a painting? It's yours. Just turn up, take one, do a quick interview and take it home. FREE ART FREES ART is the Contemporary Art revolution. See you at Camden:

Keith Haring was told to stop making his art so accessible, to stop being so prolific. Pure poison. The artworld's stranglehold on Contemporary Art is dependent on everyone believing that their attempts to make it exclusive to their pre-selected clients has any value or consequence. It's dependent on artists believing that engaging with galleries, agents and buyers is a game they need to play to put food on the table. It's essentially dependent on lies.

Free Art Frees Art is why Heckel's Horse Jr roams free while Heckel's Horse remains locked in his stable being groomed and prepped for showjumping season, purely for the amusement and financial enrichment of its captors. Heckel's Horse is a prisoner of Contemporary Art. Heckel's Horse Jr is Free Art Frees Art.

Ron Throop @ronthroop and I are bringing Free Art Frees Art to New York and London, respectively. In the process we're also burning our bridges with the conventional art business model. No gallery will touch me now. My art is everywhere in large numbers , meaning a secondary market would kill any attempt to make my artwork worth anything, at least financially. No gallery would work with an artist who's committed to giving his art away for as long as he's producing it. Scratch the surface of what the Contemporary Art market is and the practices it finances, and it becomes clear as day that it's a network that needs taking down. Napster did it so why can't we? Technology caught up with music, now it's caught up with art. We have crypto social sites like Blurt, Steemit and Ecency that I don't think have seen a single percentage of their potential materialise yet. The Camden Market Free Art Man offers clear conscience guilt free art to the masses, and now has the tools to do it:

FREE ART FREES ART will fail if we don't do it properly. Can artists survive independent of the art world without charging money for their work? Not just giving away quick drawings and cheap prints, but taking the paintings they've done at home on to the streets and just giving it all away? Can artists do this AND destroy the Contemporary Art business model? FREE ART FREES ART will see. Check out @offgridlife who's doing his own version of Free Art Frees Art in Canada. I'm setting up Paypal donation pages, publishing free booklets, Etsy and Ebay shops for those unable to make it to my free art giveaway, crypto-social sites to drum up some cash by blogging. If YouTube picks up, maybe some money will come from there. Who knows? Plenty of mistakes ahead, I'm sure. If you're interested in what Ron and I are doing, we publish a lot online and do a weekly podcast. See Black Ivory for more info.