So at 72andSunny they told us we weren't making ads but rather "art for commerce". It's a nice thought ... until you buy a ticket to the wrong weekend at Cannes !! 😡 anyone else have this problem?

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LOL. ADVERTISING IS A JOKE.

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Commercial art used to be a discipline, not sure if the hipster throwback here is a good thing... But was a real title and something you could train in at one point, basically evolved to graphic design today.

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Go read up on the Medici family. Art for commerce has always been a thing.

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^ that's exactly what I'm doing.

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You mean commissioned art

^ So why not use it to have a laugh and make some coin? OP's and your statements are not mutually exclusive.

Art is kind of a funny term given how much high art is basically serving an extremely niche market of investors. I think we just communicate and persuade, and to do that in a way that won't make most of us loathe ourselves we have to make pieces of media that connect in an emotionally positive and interesting way.

Commodifying art to sell things to people they don't need

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