Ahhhh, dearest @kesityu.fashion - I love your sharing here and I resonate fully with you!!
I just began a podcast series, called 'What The F*** Is Art For?!' and it follows many sharings I've made around precisely the points you bring up above. So, yes, yes, yes, and you spur me on to do the next episode.
Without making an extensive essay as a response to your beautiful inquiry: absolutely, artists in the past have been increasingly manipulated and intentionally diminished and kept in poverty, because the mainstream and the 'specialist' conditioning around what is commonly referred to as 'art' are so very, very distorted from the original purpose and the divine co-creative/ healing/ transformative elements of (REAL!) Art.
As artists we know the magic of the process, and of having handmade and creative things all around us; having our homes filled with lovingly-handcrafted items and our wardrobes packed with heavenly natural hand-stitched garments. We KNOW that Art in the centre of our lives means vitaly, wealth, joy, pleasure, freedom, wholeness, care, focussed attention. All else is a mimicking this, but can never be this, because it is either mechanised or made outside of the heart and the hearth. (I write extensively about this in my work and on my website.)
The removal of 'art' from Art is very significant, as it is a symbol of how we have been pulled into consumerism and passivity rather than exploring our immense and divinely-gifted creative power - which, if left to its natural devices, would bring us into harmony and fruitfullness, instead of keeping us in conditioned scarcity and fear of loss always.
It is wonderful to hear you questioning the 'norms' of gallery, museum and conventional art exposure things: I have not been involved in galleries at all for the majority of my art career (over 35 yrs), and every time I am in one, I get 'gallery fatigue' - like an energetic charge which is utterly exhausting and leaves my back aching terribly. Looking at 'art' out of the context of home and of life and community, is inherently uncomfortable, because it is not the truth of our creativity.
Anyways, I just wrote a small essay, and didn't mean to! Hehe!
LOVE to you beautiful woman,
Clare.
Indeed what a subject, we could talk about it for ever and ever...and there are endless sides to take in consideration, in that sense your essay is still quite small:) - do I find your podcast on your website? now you made me wonder:)
and yes, I get the gallery fatigue too, tough I think this is definitely triggered by all those tours we had to endure in school as kids, we couldnt even sit and it was just way to long and booring... mind you then I had an art-history teacher and she was so full of enthusiasm, that she actually managed to get me interested in all sorts of art/museums and so on..and again as you said, it is all about the connection!
It was lovely to have you around for this one:) cheers