LOLOriginally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy
So you're saying that a self-identified "artist" being forced to work in marketing and advertising isn't the worst sort of betrayal of one's artistic principles?
They would usually consider it to be so. To most writers, there is no lower form of writing than writing ads (greeting cards probably rank higher). To composers, there is no lower form of composition than jingle writing. Etc.
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Uh, no, I think what he's saying is that if you get an art (or whatever) degree, it's not impossible to find employers who are willing to hire people with those sorts of degrees, so you aren't necessarily going to be starving and broke as some posters have suggested. Yeah, obviously there isn't much artistic gratification in working for an advertising firm--obviously someone with an art degree wouldn't want to spend their whole life in that sort of job. You use that job to pay your bills, while you work on your own art in your own time, and try to eventually find a job that's more in line with what you actually want to spend your life doing. His point isn't that churning out ad copy is a fulfillment of artistic principle, it's that the "starving artist" cliche is not really accurate because people with arts degrees can get jobs too.
I should hire Syme on retainer.
That is what I mean though. You can be an artist and work at McDonalds for all you care, or be fortunate enough to work in a somewhat related field, but still be able to go home and sit at your canvas, easel, or whatever and pump out creative work.
Last edited by TheOriginalGrumpySpy; 07-16-2009 at 09:56 PM.
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