PDF The Artist Creative Vision: How to Make Art that Makes Change and Makes a Living
PDF The Artist Creative Vision: How to Make Art that Makes Change and Makes a Living
nything and everything is now called art. The Art Market is global, and some people make millions while others never find their footing. With changing algorithms and a cryptic Art World, how do you stand out as an artist?
The Artist's Creative Vision: How to Create Art that Makes Change and Earns a Living teaches how to make unique art that makes you proud and earns a living. The book aims to eliminate the phrase "starving artist" by helping people create more interesting art, more sustainably, regardless of location.
We will answer questions like:
Why is originality not such a good thing?
What can different professions teach us?
How do you build marketing into the subject matter of your art?
Kamar Thomas' The Artist's Creative Vision teaches us how to bring humanity and creativity to our art and pay our bills.
Chapters will teach you...
Learn How the Art Market WorksSell through the Gallery System or through your own channels. Anyone who helps you make money also wants some.
Cultivate your CuriositySelect a few topics and go deep and then try to use your artistic skills to turn them into art
Avoid OriginalityInstead, look for depth and breadth in sources of inspiration and reverse engineer the results
Go Where the Money IsMove between Experimental and Conceptual ways of making art. Try on new ideas through small bets.
Solve an Interesting ProblemCreate a solution to a problem for a specific group of people with your work.
Cultivate InterestS outside of your artCross-pollinate ideas and ways of thinking from a new field to make you own work.
Think in MetaphorsTry to explain a new field using what you already know.
Reinvent YourselfUse your day job or a professional interest as the role you play as an artist
Collaborate with an expertFind an expert and over a year, develop a project beneficial to you both. Extra points if they are not alive.
Use Your BiographyMake a work of art or mind map that represents your biography and major changes in your life
Use FearDefine what those you seek to change are afraid of and embed it within your work
Use AspirationBuild a vision of the world those you seek to change would like to see
Develop your own Point of ViewAnswers what your work is trying to do, and for whom and make work in a way that your audience happily shares