Nicolas Claris said:
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Enfin! Finaly!
I find someone here with this statement!
Merci Tony!
How wrong! Also how destructive! I differ from both of you
It may be ways of looking at authority. Let me give an example.
In the USA, where the idea of creative people is to break rules, there may be a little more of local allowance for self-made titles. I have seen some people referring in their websites as "Professor" when they had an adjunct appointment only. But the USA IS the place for opportunity, and as long as you don't practice medicine without a license or fly planes into buildings, you can pretty well do what you want.
A lot of men in Hollywood call themselves a "Designer", when I know that means they are unemployed but open to a new relationship. If it "works" go for it.
Now for "Artist", I am a lot less cynical. Why? Because the market is much more sophisticated and critical and people have been exposed to great art. I have no problem someone calling himself an artist as I have with a boxer challenging a prizefighter. Go out there and show your stuff.
If you have the stuff of an artist, it will show.
I'll go further, I think it is important for people to make that existential commitment, I am; an artist!
The first observer and recipient of ones work is the creator. If when he looks at his work he finds the feelings and ideas expressed he mapped out, then his work is art. If that first test of reception works, he IS an artist, whether or not he declares it.
I tell all the actors who model for me to not wait for people to call them an artist. They must declare it to themselves and "Stamp their own passports!" Waiting for a 3rd person to approve your vision and execution is unhealthy.
Now, I don't advise anyone to be delusional. Saying, I'm an artist means this is my commitment to my work and myself to excel in creating expressions for someone, even just for themselves alone.
So I utterly disagree with the idea that it takes a 3rd person to declare you an artist. If you cannot make that declaration, you have not set your life on that track in a purposeful way yet or need an injection of testosterone!
Asher