What is an Artist?

Believe it or not, the notion that we have of the Artist is a relatively recent invention. We may speak of Michelangelo as a great artist, but back in the day, he wasn't an Artist. He was a painter, a sculptor, he was many things, but not what we today would call an Artist.

Monet, the Impressionist painter, was a Painter and not an Artist, at least not the way we think of artists today. More and more, individuals today are becoming Artists as though being an artist was a career path, a profession. But it isn't.

For example, I am a professional painter as well as a sound designer. There is no such thing as a profession known as being an artist. One can create art but then one is a painter or a sculptor or a musical composer and so forth. I will be writing more about this over the coming months. Stay tuned. The point is that one cannot become an Artist because there is no such thing. One cannot be an Artist. There is no such thing. One is a) an individual and b) one practises some profession, but there is no such profession as creating art. It would be like saying a human being is a breather of air, or an eater of food-stuffs. Art is an abstract concept, not a profession. More to come.
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