Jerry Saltz: how to be an artist

Well that was kind of an article. not that it is a bad one just that, it was something I read. I was interested and the subject matter was fun to sift through but even still I knew about half of those lessons and things already. The other to me at least were viewed as common sense in my eyes. Maybe that says more about me as an artist more then anything. the weird part is that most of those is right. While I haven't struggled with money before I can see how that it's not very profitable. I have done work for people online and of the things \i sold I made about $180-ish USD which is not a lot, and the time invested in some of them is pretty much much less then minimum wadge if you calculate it out. so I'd say about numbers 32, 31, 28, 25, as well as most of the ones before. I think to list off the places where I struggle is a much shorter list. but it's mainly 26 and 10. Ten mainly for the reasons of it's hard to sell my work to people because of well 26 and seeing others success is quite hard to really get over for me as I find that I feel like I have't accomplished much of anything. Then again I have't had a job or much else to distract me and I find it hard to even do lesson five so yeah. I have gotten better with getting with other artists and having them help me improve so there's that. Since I took art history there's a lot of artists work I actually recognize like Mondrian, Duchamp Michelangelo (obviously), Manet Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and and a few more. However there was a lot more that I didn't know, or at least haven't seen much of their work before for instance, Koons, Alice Neel, Joan Samuel, Sylvia Sleigh, and one of my new favorites Francis Bacon. Mainly because this depiction reminds me a lot of the brush work of Van Gogh's Starry Night, on of my personal favorite paintings. over all the article had a lot of points and interesting concepts that I already knew before even starting the read but overall it made me realize that even if I know that these problems are there that doesn't mean that I have fully learned the lesson being taught.