The labor of creating, conceiving and designing the artistic noumenon is an independent, complex and personalized spiritual productive labor with strong freedom, subjectivity and originality, which cannot be produced in a centralized, batch and standardized way. Therefore, it is also the independent creation of workers in different artistic categories. It is not a standardized and socialized product. Therefore, its value is not and cannot be measured by "socially necessary labor time", and it is difficult to make an exact comparison with similar labor.

Of course, the value of art itself is not simply equivalent to the simple "personal labor time" of "1 minute to produce the value it determines. It is the cumulative workload of "working under the stage in 10 years" determined by the creative subject's necessary labor time recognized by the market based on the exploration amount of long-term training, the experimental amount of repeated practice and rehearsal, and the recognition of artistic creation experience, artistic communication and performance skills, personal talent differences, social influence and fashion factors, and scarcity.

Individuality and commonness in the formation of artistic carrier value

The artistic carrier is a material media system that externalizes the creative subject and materializes the aesthetic image conceived by it. Art conveys the value of manufacturing labor and creating artistic carriers, which can be roughly divided into three situations:

The first is the original art carrier. This kind of creative labor has a unique personality and style, which is personalized. The value it creates cannot be determined by the socially necessary labor time.

The second is the artistic carrier of artificial reproduction. Although the reproduction of this kind of carrier is not original, it needs rich experience, superb skills and skillful skills, and has the imitation and complexity of communication and production. This kind of labor is also individual and incomparable, and its value is difficult to be measured by socially necessary labor time.

The third is the artistic carrier of mechanical reproduction. For example, the typesetting and printing of graphic works, the recording and copying of song tapes, songs, dances, dramas, videotapes and CDs, and the copying of movies can all be mass-produced, standardized and socialized, and the value they create can and must be determined and measured by socially necessary labor time.