True ARTIST vs. pretentious arts/crafts?

Question

This is just a survey I'm curious how many will respond to....

What defines a true artist (traits, gifts, expression) versus a fake.

List other arts than the obvious: drawing, painting, and music.

Answer 1

I teach children art and this is what I always tell them. If you love art and pursue it with all of your heart, whether people like it or not, you are a real artist. There will always be someone more gifted or less gifted than you. Get over it. If you keep pressing on because this is your passion - to create, that's what makes an artist! Not acclaim or money.

Answer 2

A true artist is what people described above, I guess. I think it's a little bit more though too. My professor said only 1% of the world's population are true artists. I think that means that only a small percentage of people can think the way true artists do. For true artists-
I think true artists have big imaginations and can think of new ideas all the time. They study symbols and patterns and learn from other artists. They try to create things that they see and what is in their minds. That part is easy. It's the creating part that's hard. How do you take an awesome image in your head and pull it out onto a canvas or into a sculpture and have it look like what you first saw it as? it's fun and frustrating. Artists need to develope their skills and practice all the time.
I also think A true artists can see many things through their eyes that other people just walk past. We see colors, and patterns, and lines in our real life all around us.
I think fakes are just wannabe's. They copy other people's ideas and they may even have the skills to paint and take photos or sculpt but there is no inspiration thus they can't create with originality. They can only copy or use cheap tricks to get attention. That's sad. So they may trick people that don't know or don't care what art is about and just want to learn about "culture". Only the fake knows he is a fake and other people- well we just have our opinions and hunches.

Answer 3

I separate the two by comparing John Wayne to Laurence Olivier. John Wayne did one thing very well, the cowboy. Lawrence Olivier did many different roles with great ease. Wayne to me was a commercial artist or craftsman. olivier was a creative artist. The finest purest artist of the last century was in my opinion Vincent Van Gogh. His art was pure & different . he was not out to make a buck because he never did. the worst artist of our time is Thomas Kinkade. Because he professes to be a fine artist when he is actually a commercial artist or craftsman, doing the same thing that has been done for hundreds of years.
a craftsman is someone who makes a good cabinet the same way every time, an artist would never make the same cabinet twice.

It is very hard to be true to your art because people for the most part don't buy new creations they like the popular and the trendy. that's why artists usually become famous after they are in the sod.

A true artist does not do art to match the couch he asks the patron to buy a couch to match the painting.

Answer 4

Thats is up for debate. You also have to consider alot of artist were considered pretentious till they were discovered later in life. Then you got those that claim they are TRUE artist. and their definition of art is to use feces to model a giant pickle and call it "Life Struggle".
To be honest nowadays what separates true art is money and time. Money defines art and what someone is willing to pay for it. Like paying a $1million for a painting done in urine. And in time all things can become art. For example the Eifel tower was an eyesore to the French but now they can not see paris without it.
You also have to consider every artist had to start somewhere.

So recap True art is either defined by money and recognition or time.

Answer 5

A true artist may be working in a medium that, in another's hands, would be merely craft. But real originality and artistic vision can make almost anything true art. Examples from my own life are quilting and doll making/dressing. It's not just the prices they fetch, either, although that is one indicator that patrons are taking them seriously as art. When they get into thousands of dollars for a modern example (and far more for well-preserved antiques), you know you are talking real art.

Answer 6

True artist have been around longer then people making crafts out of a book. True artist know how to create something because they create what they want to and not what comes from a book.

Answer 7

lets not be an art snob.
What I value in art is concept, genuine beauty, weirdness, interesting use of medium, etc. I don't think you can say who is a "true" artist and who is a "fake". Unless you knew something about their background, or you knew that they were directly copying someone else. And even with that, conceptual art comes into play.

Answer 8

an artist creates for the joy of creating

a "pretentious arts/crafts" person does so for money/recognition/etc

it doesn't matter what the medium is, or what the finished product is. art can be judged by each individual to determine its worth to that individual, but whether or not someone is an artist is determined by their motivation.

Answer 9

In my opinion, a true artist is one who's works express his soul and one that goes against mainstream ideals for what's art or what's marketable. I know many girls who arrange flowers, decorate houses but I don't think of them as pure artists because all their ideas come from photos/magazines. I know someone gifted in writing poetry--is that art? She writes from life experience and touches others--and it requires no money but just imagination and a pen/paper. It has to be unique, spontaneous, original, and from one's imagination.

Answer 10

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