THE FEATURES OF ARTISTIC POLICIES – NORWAY, FINLAND, THE NETHERLANDS
THE FEATURES OF ARTISTIC POLICIES – NORWAY, FINLAND, THE NETHERLANDS

Summary/Abstract: The artistic market has awakened great interest worldwide in the last century and this has led to seeking more efficient ways to promote national art. This discourse will focus on the main features of the strategies adopted by the Nordic countries: Norway, Finland and Netherlands. The case studies selected will go in parallel in order to highlight the difference in outlook between what the groups Norway-Finland proposed and what proposes Netherlands. The first two countries prefer strategies under the national authority, while the Netherlands encourages private initiative involvement in the assertion of art market. We will begin with the governmental funding mechanisms, then our study will have a double dimension regarding the art market dimension in terms of the system adopted by the Netherlands. Norway and Finland prefer controlled intervention over national arts, while the Dutch government, in addition to its involvement assertion leaves space for the private segment in the arts. The funding arrangements of art and artists are following the same principle in all three cases of public support, the subsidization of artists by criteria. All three strategies have proven much or less effective in achieving its purpose of financing the artistic domain.

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