Submitted by _Daneel_Olivaw t3_zuvzze in singularity
eve_of_distraction t1_j1lts72 wrote
The vast, vast majority of artists throughout history have never been able to make an income. So the complaining we are seeing now is just coming from a privileged few. Throughout history the most common experience of being an artist has always been that you livelihood essentially never existed in the first place. I'm not targeting this blog specifically, I'm just pushing back against the recent sentiment.
enilea t1_j1lzimt wrote
I saw a thread of Twitter where someone argued that they can't afford such high prices for art and some people replied it should stay that way because art has always been a luxury commodity. It's such a classist opinion coming from people who grew up privileged.
eve_of_distraction t1_j1m46bo wrote
It's a tricky one, because some art is rare due to the artists being dead, etc. That means the market will value it's scarcity whether we like it or not. I agree though, the art world is absolutely filled with snobbery. Keep in mind I'm also talking about graphic design here, which I worked in for years. It can be a very economically unreliable profession to put it mildly.
mocha_sweetheart t1_j1rr9pv wrote
I’m studying for graphic design stuff would you have any advice or recommendations on this?
eve_of_distraction t1_j1swn9h wrote
I don't think there are any professions that are going to be safe from AI, so I would say it's worth continuing to study what interests us and do what we enjoy. We'll all be in the same boat economically as AI obsoletes so many fields of human work. We're going to need UBI as a society.
PinguinGirl03 t1_j1mqx1p wrote
Art a luxury commodity? Art is everywhere. In books, on tv, in games, musea, billboards, whatever. It's hard to picture a media without art.
FranciscoJ1618 t1_j1p1iro wrote
Exactly. Nobody ever wanted to become an artist to get rich. And it's been associated with poverty for centuries.
elysios_c t1_j23lght wrote
So you hate artists because they managed to beat the odds? and now they deserve to lose their jobs even though they spend thousands upon thousands of hours to get skilled enough to do this professionally?
eve_of_distraction t1_j27gdpi wrote
No, I don't hate anyone. I'm just pointing out the facts. Most artists spend thousands of hours and are skilled enough to do it professionally, yet still fail.
elysios_c t1_j282z3w wrote
It's the nature of art(being subjective) combined with the fact the market has too little demand and too much supply of artists.
But imo if you have an inclination and you put in the hours you could almost certainly do it(at least at industry jobs). It's just that people give up long before they reach that level because learning art mindfucks you big time. To get better your perception should be ahead of your drawing and at the point where your drawing skills have reached or surpassed your perception then your perception gets ahead again. If you are getting better at art it's an endless circle of thinking everything you paint is shit which requires strong will. Obviously there's a lot of luck involved
eve_of_distraction t1_j287lny wrote
>But imo if you have an inclination and you put in the hours you could almost certainly do it(at least at industry jobs).
Yet most artists have the inclination and put in the hours and don't succeed.
>Obviously there's a lot of luck involved
More than nearly any other profession I'd say, along with being an author.
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