Part 1:

Both of these articles make significant connections between artists and entrepreneurship and contravene the social constructs that separate the business minded moguls and passion driven artisans.

Tim Leberecht’s “What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists” validates the artist by defining his qualities that makes him valuable as a businessman. Leberecht argues that in order to be a good entrepreneur, one must be creative and innovative like the artist. The artist is able to reinvent himself, appeal to an audience, and rely on intuition in order to predict trend, which all are attributes that leads the entrepreneur’s success.

In “Are Artists Entrepreneurs?”, Amit Gupta seems to conclude that artists have to be entrepreneurs. Gupta expresses that in order for an artist to be successful, he needs the proper resources and network that entrepreneurship helps create.

Artists are indeed entrepreneurs. They have to invest in themselves by practicing and learning skills that will help them communicate message or design to their audience. Artists need tough skin and must be prepared to hear the word ‘no’. They also must find the proper resources to help them broadcast their work effectively and properly. I think that artists are most defined by their humanist and story-telling attributes. In order to most effectively communicate to an audience, one must understand the audience’s drive and condition. An artist’s work appeals to the audience’s pathos and condition and relates to and pleases the audience in this manner. An additional characteristic that is essential for an artisan to have is grit. Art and communications is a very competitive and cutthroat field; an artist needs to keep pushing and be self-motivated in order to be successful.

Part 2:

Apparently I’m very gritty with a score of 5. I do need to work on some things though. I think that I need to be more focused and manage my time a bit better. It is easy to get distracted, but so far I have been really good about that this whole week of school. Hopefully I am to stay motivated and keep myself humble enough to think of the big picture and a successful future.