Give credit where and when credit is due!

Many artists today seem to create businesses out of their art work. Buildings that are large studios ran like assembly line factories in order to create their thoughts by the hands of hired help. You may ask who are these artists that are putting out TOP dollars to have their art thoughts become actual work? Well, artists, such as Damien Hurst and Jeff Koons, are providing jobs to recent graduate students in order to make thoughts become real by the hands, sweat, and emotions of another person. Koons currently has over 120 "assistants" working to create his thoughts. Article, by another arts blog interviews Koon, who revealed that he simply supervises his creations.
Contemporary art differs from the art created by people in the 1800's. Art then, was seen as a story, an artist who conveys his emotion, or some type of story through the lens of a canvas. However, critics, students, and regular people are bewildered by what makes art, art, and often times, question if this "new" type of art production really is art completed by the individual who signed the finish product, or rather is paying another to have his thoughts created then is that what our society should consider what art really is? Or should we allow for the unseen hand who really constructed this piece of work to go unnoticed.
One thought to keep in mind, is that there was a person who did give credit to the person who completed this art work...Honorary legend, Marcel Duchamp's piece, Fountain, that was not signed by Mr. Duchamp but by another artist, R.Mutt. Maybe it is time that artists go back to being artists and complete the work themselves. I am not saying not have a helping hand but just to GIVE CREDIT WHEN CREDIT IS DUE...

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