What interesting belief are you experimentally holding right now?
Me: that I'm an artist.
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I'm just trying to make sure I don't end up a *starving* artist. I like the idea of being a wealthy artist though
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based on my current understanding of how the art industry works, you'll need to get a prestigious MFA (or equivalent clout) to have a chance at being a non-starving artist. perhaps you'd have more success as an art advisor or dealer
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If you're creating your own definition of art that doesn't fit into the fine arts artworld (or literature world, which is now overlaps a lot with the artworld), you're an "outsider artist" and while you might think of yourself as an artist and may have success, ...
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You will likely not have a significant effect on art during your lifetime. Obviously this is just my understanding of how these things work
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I'm 100% in support of holding the belief that one is an artist btw, just pointing out some potential frustrations that might occur when trying to be an artist publically
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I actually think of MFA types as bureaucrats who might sometimes rise to artist despite their formal insider status rather than because of it
That's what I thought too, but I have been researching the art world intensely (as my day job for a startup) and have had a lot of trouble finding successful artists (as recognized by the art world) who don't have a prestigious art school
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I get that. I just don't think recognition by the art world is what makes someone an artist. And there's plenty of ways to make money while feeding artistic aspirations that don't involve relying on validation from that world so that correlation is also kinda spurious.
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