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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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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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