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Artwork is the crystallization of the intellectual labor of the artist. It circulates in the art market as a special commodity. The same as other commodities, it also has the basic attributes of ordinary commodities: use value and value; the difference is that the use value of art is reflected in the spiritual level rather than the material level. It is aimed at satisfying people’s certain aesthetic and spiritual needs. Therefore, the use value of artworks is greatly affected by subjective factors

The practice of modern art has made the concept of "artwork" wider and wider, impacting the definition of various traditional art concepts. In the face of modern art, the famous American analytical aesthetics Brock stands on the post-analytic aesthetics standpoint, from the perspective of art With human intentions, the non-utilitarian nature of artworks, artworks and artistic customs, and the open concept of artworks, we redefine the concept of "artwork" to seek aesthetic justification for modern art.

Artistic American economist Gold Huber pointed out: "If you measure the productivity of an artist in dollars, you will find that the most attractive artist makes the most money." He believes that the purpose of art is to attract attention. Successfully attracting attention is the whole meaning of art. That is to say, in a sense, the decisive factor that affects the price of an artwork is actually not just the artistic value of the artwork itself and the number of artworks in existence, but the attention that the artwork can attract .