Creativity.

I recently had a conversation with someone and resisted the gut wrenching urge to reach across the table to strangle him when I heard the words 'Graphic design and all that, that's not art'. I won't be naming anyone because I would fear for their safety.

I think you realize what my opinion is, I mean really, not art?. When does the fact that someone has the ability to work and create within deadlines and criteria on a regular basis automatically rip the acknowledgement from them? Is the only form of art really just 'art for arts sake'? Do we have to starve to be considered a true artist? If then someone is trying to get a political agenda across in their work, does this also mean that it isn't art?

Pop culture is born from demand from the 'defined popularity' and so art forms follow this. In reality each movement is more often a rebellion, it is in fact still a reaction to social and economic conditions, as is advertising and the imagery they create.

Shepard Fairey a skateboarder turned graphic designer, Illustrator, artist, and his world renowned poster of Obama, that would be considered a commercial job, or commissioned work. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists.[2] His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His art grew from street stickers to museums through commercialism, he has a book 'demand and supply' The Art of Shepard Fairey.

Does then the accessibility define the art? The fact that we see ads all the time that you see illustrations in every form of media does that take away from it's impact, from it's real quality?

(Pictures from Lost at E Minor.)
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