[heynowletsgo]

An person who pays others to create their work can be called a lot of things, but artist is not one of them.

[Declanomous]

I disagree. The art was clearly created. I don't think the mechanical act of creating art has supremacy over the creative act.

In fact, I'd contend that as a society we've agreed that the creative act is supreme to the mechanical act. Architects, directors, large scale-sculpture artists. Their works are created by other people, they merely provide instructions for other people to execute.

[heynowletsgo]

Semantics.

[spcelzrd]

Rodin, Chihuly, Ai Wei Wei. It's more common than you might think.