On Line Study. 03/15/2010
 
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The two artists, who visited me today, asked me, ‘what advice I would give a starting out artist’. I said, ‘get a qualification, preferably in an essential service. My reasoning is that if you have a profession to fall back on should times be tough, you will be able to respect your art, enough to not fall into the financial crisis trap of painting trashy bread and butter paintings.

Art needs to be, kept free, of financial pressure to be ‘art’.  Work done under financial pressure to produce income becomes craft, skilled craft at best, manufactured product, at its, worst.

Artist integrity is easiest to maintain when the basic essentials of life, are secure, due to having professional qualifications. Even if you become financially successful artist, and never use the qualifications you earn, professionally, an education, is never, wasted.

 
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