Post #149517 by TikiGardener on Sun, Mar 27, 2005 1:45 PM

If you're an artist and you sell your work ( painting, sculpture, string art, whatever ) thats fine.

If you are a musician or comedian and you pack halls, and sell cds, or whatever other medium conveys you're thoughts or ideas, thats fine.

If you allow an advertising company to use you art to sell a product. Well the word that best describes what you do starts with a W.

Or if you like semantics, you're a jingle writer, or an illustrator.

I work with "art" everyday. I must see two or three hundred paintings, sculptures, and string art in the course of one workday. Most of the guys around me are artists. If they made it big by selling their hearfelt artwork I'd have no problem with them sitting up in Brentwood. And the same goes for the musicians at my job. But to a one, none of them could see allowing their art being used for selling a Hummer, or a can of soda.

There is a difference between selling your art, and allowing it to be whored out.

I also deal with a large number of galleries. I take the Stuckists line;"Art that has to be in a gallery to be art, isn't art."

That said, I'm surprised no one has asked the question;" Is Shag an Artist or an Illustrator?"

"Gardener Industries, helping you find new and creative ways to flog your dead horse...". Maybe WILD HORSES by The Rolling Stones could play in the background.

[ Edited by: tikigardener on 2005-03-27 14:07 ]