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Everything in our lives, to a greater or lesser extent, is connected to money and art is no exception. Artists need money for canvases, paints, films, PCs and, of course, they need to eat! This means that any artist sooner or later will be brought reluctantly to face with the problem of getting money.

Yes, art history knows some happy exceptions, such as when an artist was descended from a wealthy family or found a rich sponsor or benefactor. However, the number of these exceptions is small, and the majority of artists in the beginning of their career experience money difficulties, and sometimes this lasts all their life.

Why can’t artists reliably earn a living through their artworks? Why must they so often have a traditional day job and create their as yet unacknowledged masterpieces by night? Why is a Van Gogh a good investment while it is really risky to invest money in contemporary artists?

All answers to these questions come down to the same point, which is that people who are buying art prefer to invest in artists who are known to have a solid reputation, this is more important to them than going for what they really like. This is practical from the point of view of financial investment, but makes no sense in an emotional way – if art doesn’t give you a feeling of beauty, if doesn’t guide you to a different world, then it is not the art for you. The desire to buy a particular artwork should ideally resemble love at first sight.

Money can affect the artist’s scope for free expression. In order to make serious money from their work artists often feel that they need to create artworks that will score big successes in a society and will earn them money. These artworks do not necessarily carry great value; this is like the hit of the season that will be forgotten in the near future.

The key thing is for an artist to remember the reason they chose art as their profession – not in order to get rich quickly, or be incredibly famous and known all around the world. Rather, the point was to be able to create in the way that they wanted to, to give form to the ideas in their head, and to share these things with the rest of the world. When artists bear this in mind, they will be able to be satisfied with the quiet appreciation and steady but unremarkable sales that most artists experience in their lives. It is enough to pay the bills, perhaps have a little over, and keep creating.

Inventions and their subsequent patents can be deemed to be analogous to lodging of mines in a predefined area; said pre-defined area being the technical or scientific (metaphoric) area. As and how patents are granted, progressivity of science is defined and each granted patent is a milestone, or better still, in confirming with the discussion of this article, a mine. Further, analogically speaking, it is in everyone’s best interests to be wary of the mines whilst treading the pre-defined area, in that, it means that it is necessary to understand the nature and construction of a patent before exercising any technology, for it may happen that an exercise may lead to setting off the mine by infringing patent rights. Subsequent effects of booming of such mines maybe just as catastrophic considering that typical litigation bills run up to crores of rupees and hundreds of thousands of dollars!

Hence, just as it is necessary to invest in a strong research oriented outlook, it is just of equivalent importance to pre-empt such threats by warding off wayward wandering and adorning a pro-active due-diligent outlook. The art of landscaping (in patents), hence involves a methodology to scale the exact nature of the invention in the vast realm of existing prior art and to map the specifics of the current art with the prior art to understand the ground that has already been traversed, and to understand potentially traversable grounds.

A step wise procedure for an effective landscaping technique and report includes:
- understanding the subject matter by defining an outlining scaffold to define its perimeter, and its intermittent support structures;
- deriving keywords resembling the same outlining scaffold and intermittent structures, and drawing out alternative search-words for the same;
- formulating a query and running it in a plurality of databases to formulate a ‘good’ hit-list of relevant patents/patent applications;
- analyzing the claims of each of the searched and identified patents/patent applications in order to map the claims of the ‘relevant’ documents to the subject matter so as to arrive at a mapping quotient.

The mapping quotient eventually lies in a detailed analysis of similarities and dissimilarities between patents and the subject matter.

The entire genesis of a technological area is clearly visible once a successful patent landscape report is formulated; which includes the need for emergence of the technological area in line with the adage that ‘necessity is the mother of all inventions’, progressive advances in the area, the interdependence of this technological area upon other technological areas, gaps and jumps in the genesis, and a proposed plausible future course of action in the same area.

How this helps a research firm is that it can now, nitpick upon the gaps and dig the same to scavenge for potential markets.

Here’s a Halloween art project to do with your toddler or preschooler. It’s very easy and it looks great around the house.

Here’s what you need:

-8.5″ x 11″ black construction paper

-white tempera or kids’ washable paint

-a plastic bin

-4 marbles

-scissors

-stapler

Your child can help with cutting and gluing, depending on her skill level.

Here’s what to do:

Using a sheet of black construction paper, cut out the shape of a spider web. An easy way to do this is to cut out a large circle, then put a dot in the N, S, E, and W positions. Put one more dot between each of these dots so that you end up with eight equally spaced marks along the border. Now cut sagging loops between each of the marks and you have the basic shape of a spider web

Now, place your construction paper cut-out in the bin. Put a small line of white tempera paint at various places within the bin.

Place the 4 marbles in the bin.

Allow your child to tilt the bin in different directions. This will cause the marbles to roll through the paint and make white lines across the black construction paper. Now you have a spider web with white silky lines.

Allow the spider web to dry for at least 30 minutes.

For a spider, simply cut a small circle out of the black construction paper. Cut the legs out and staple or glue them on. For eyes, glue on white circles with a black dot not exactly in the middle. The off center pupil gives the spider a kid-friendly silly look. Glue or staple the spider to the spider web.

Repeat the steps for more spider webs to decorate the house!