Um, went too b/w there, I reckon.. (surry)
Yes, there's art made to 'serve' a buyer and it might be quite brilliant.. but there's also art made out of the intrinsic urge an artist has to do so. They need that type of expression.. whatever the outside world thinks of the works later on.
Some followed an ideal. Impressionism had the adage: none of them fuckin' rules, classic art should go by and telling me how I should paint, I take seriously. What's nice, what's approved of, with the in-crowd?
FUCK 'M.
Well, don't think Vincent van Gogh and his paintings are subservient to any power that be. Okay, he wasn't that sane maybe but he made some paintings only the biggest of fools wouldn't consider art.
Claude Monet, his works, subservient to power?