Visual Studies Seminar Blog Post #1

  1. The main points of each of these articles is comparing the role and job of entrepreneurs and artists. These articles are talking about how artists are becoming entrepreneurs and vice versa.
  2. Artists can learn to follow the lead of their “entrepreneurial cousins” and use all of the many resources that they have available to them in order to remove the burdens of actually doing business as an independent artist.
  3. Yes, I completely agree that artists are entrepreneurs. I never really thought about artists being entrepreneurs, but now after reading these articles I do. There are many characteristics that artists and entrepreneurs share, one of which is that they are both driven by passion.
  4. I agree with many of the characteristics listed, however one that I agree with mostly is that artists are passionate about their work. I really liked the part where they said that artists face criticism and fight for their work when they’re passionate about it, and if it isn’t worth fighting for than it might have not been the best idea in the first place.
  5. I would probably add that artists learn from and get inspired by people and everything around them.
  6. Reading these two articles was really thought provoking for me because I never thought about the similarities between entrepreneurs and artists. Now that I am thinking about it thought they are so much more alike than I used to think. It’s really cool to have a new perspective of looking at these two occupations.
  7. After taking the quiz, I have realized that I am not that gritty and I definitely need to work on becoming grittier.
  8. In order to increase my level of grit I need to complete goals when I set them and I need to work on one project at a time instead of dropping a project idea that I had and starting a new one because I lost interest in the original.

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