Examine the nuances and caveats displayed in Bignell’s four-part blog post , exploring the possible background concerns driving his argumentation, and discuss to what extent you agree with his conclusions Bignell opens his first post with rhetorical questions of self-doubt and objections of critics to the artist’s profession. These include: is it worth it? Is it worth the pain? The frustration? The tedium of practising scales, the grind of auditions, the constant sense of being unappreciated, the nagging suspicion that you have spent the best years of your life learning to do something no one really wants to pay you to do..? “Why not just give up and get a real job?”... Why are you making art? Bignell then notices how artists seemingly need and look for justification in response to these critics, but his third blog post ends in agreement with Hans Rookmaker’s title ‘Art Needs No Justification’, stating that there is no harm in doing art simply because you love it. At thi...