Luiz Rosa Nanini
Mr. Speice ISM 16 September 2016 Subject: Support for Artists Citations: Lent, Shawn, Michael Feldman, Talia Gibas, and Louise Geraghty. "The State: A Friend Indeed to Artist in _______Need?” Createquity. Createquity, 8 July 2016. Web. 16 Sept. 2016 Research Assessment # 3 While looking on the website I used for my last research, I came across an article that piqued my interest. It was mainly focused on different countries’ ways of dealing with traditional artists. Based on the belief that as the world becomes increasingly globalised, it is important to learn about the job’s status in the rest of the world. The article itself talked about the difference between more socialist countries’ sponsorship of art, and America’s more indirect support of artist. It mainly wanted to show the positives and negatives to both sides. I mainly want to focus on what they said differentiated America’s art field from the rest of the world. Which is, that the art field is not supported by the government, unlike some other countries, but, like any other field, are left to balance the consumers’ demands. Annoyingly, the information is not new to me, the last article I researched spoke of the dangers of the art world. It already had led me to establish the idea of a backup plan. It did, though, give it a more solid reasoning: as the job has a large disparity between high and low wages, and only a minority reaches the high end, it makes sense to have another job or find a more secure job in art like concept art or animation. Although, preferably, I would like to use this information during interviews. Professional’s opinions of the subject would bring a more grounded approach than what the article provided. The article is not like most articles I have researched Createquity, the group responsible for the article, seems to focus much less on the numbers, but on what the information means to them and the art field. Which is interesting, the more thought provoking article makes it easier to formulate my own opinion on the subject and reveals some of the art field’s atmosphere. The article helped me visualise a broad view of the challenges and advantages artists in America face. It motivated me to look more into articles about how different artists survive in the field, but it failed to provide enough new information. It did state other countries’s relationships with artists, which was new, but it did not provide new information about the United States’s relationships with artists. This, ironically encouraged me to add a new interview question: “I was reading an article that made a point about America not providing as much support to artist, do you believe this is true, why?” I think I am going to move on from traditional art-related articles. Although I am still overflowing with questions, I believe some can be answered during my interviews. I definitely will go back to traditional art and concept art in the future, but for now I plan to move on to graphic design because I still have not researched the topic. I am curious to see how these articles will impact my interviews and how future articles will impact future interviews.
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Luiz Rosa Nanini
Mr. Speice ISM 10 September 2016 Subject: Starving Artist Citation: Lent, Shawn, Louise Geraghty, Michael Feldman, Talia Gibas, and Ian David Moss. "Who Can Afford to Be A _____Starving Artist? Createquity." Createquity. N.p., 14 June 2016. Web. 12 Sept. 2016. Research Assessment #2 This week I decided to follow one of the extremes in my choices for topics. (Traditional Art, Concept Art, and Graphic Design) I went with traditional art. It took no time for me to find an interesting article, which asked the question I have always had in my mind, why does the “starving artist” exists. I began reading and was surprised to see the authors wanted to spark thought more than anything else. They were not planning on convincing the readers of anything, but wanted to get readers to think about the topic. They began by stating that the world does not need artist, but artist need the world- Well, artist need workers in other professions, but those workers do not need artists. In a way it makes sense, the world needs construction workers, farmers, government officials, but it does not really need any artists. They do not provide any tangible benefit to the world, yet I believe it is just as important as any profession to our society. Like the internet, art benefits our society. It provokes thought, reflects culture, and are a mode of expression much needed in our world. The authors seem to agree with me. They next mention what artists really benefit society, they say it is those who benefit others by attracting audiences and winning the experts’ praise, or if they add to society. In that sense I think they are ruling out those that only create art for the art market. Which makes sense- to thrive in any job a person must work because they are passionate about what they do, not for the money. Their third main point is that artist tend to be those in the higher social status are more likely to become artists. This surprised me. I have an advantage over someone with less money because I can formulate a backup plan and I have more resources to create art with. I am glad to learn this because it helps to know that I am not alone in my hesitancy to take on the job. ISM thankfully will help me decide. Another mention the authors made was that artists tend to have other jobs and degrees incase their original plan does not pan out as they hoped. Mainly because in art, the discrepancy between those payed the most and the least is overwhelmingly large. This is interesting because most artists do not have degrees, but those that do are more economically stable. This encourages my plan to get a fine arts degree, but also frightens me to know I could fail terribly in attempting to follow my passion. Overall, seeing that my fears are not paranoia, but a real problem, is quite reassuring. I still hope to find answers in how the successful artists achieve their success, but for now I am very anxious to learn if my passion is going to be a hinderance or a strength. Luiz Rosa Nanini
Mr. Spiece ISM 4 September 2016 Citation: "Concept Artist Career." MyMajors. N.p., 13 Dec. 2015. Web. 04 Sept. 2016. ______Subject: Concept Art Research Assignment #1- Concept/Storyboard Artist Since I am looking into a variety of topics relating to art: traditional artist, graphic designer, storyboard artist, and even animation, I cannot research all of my topic. That is why I am hoping to find a medium between my choices, something that is not too hard to look into. Traditional art and graphic design are the two extremes of my spectrum of choices, so I am decided to look into storyboarding and concept design. I began by looking at the basics, storyboard and concept artists seem to work in relatively the same field, Multimedia Artists, because they work with both technology and traditional art. They both work to create the basic outline of the project, characters, story, and scenery, as well as, and this is mainly storyboard artists, helping establish the animation and personality for each character in the project. This information looks great, I love working with traditional art, but I know being a traditional artist is not a very stable job. These two jobs will allow me to use traditional art in tandem with programs like photoshop and flash. Also the fact that these jobs are very project based and involve working directly with a team seems great. I have worked in team-based-projects with my church group and I have always enjoyed working with other people. I was surprised, though, that the average salary that was around $65,000. From what I had gathered in the past, I had expected the salary would be around $50,000. Overall, I feel as though this information only makes me feel more comfortable about exploring the field, but, discouragingly, it seems difficult to find new information about the subject. After looking into the main idea of the job I looked at education, and it seems a Bachelor's Degree is the expected education. From painting, and animation, there is a wide variety of majors people have gotten the job with. This affirms my choice of getting a Fine Arts Degree. It is a flexible degree that I know can get me just about any of the options I am open to, so this information, again, only makes me more eager to look into these jobs. As much as this information encourages me to look into these job, mainly because they seem to fit perfectly into what I want, a stable career that will enable me to follow my passion and work with a team, I am discouraged in that I haven’t really found too much new information. I look forward to further explore the fine details of these two similar fields, especially concept art, and will definitely use the information I gathered to help me in researching my mentors. |