commercial art for advertisements is in such a strange spot for me because i don’t think that being An Advertisement stops something from counting as art and i think the specific challenges and objectives that arise from doing art for advertising are genuinely interesting. and i think a lot of commercial illustration that has been produced is cool and compelling to look at. but i also am just fundamentally disgusted by and feel deep hatred for advertising and i think the fact that so many artists have to do it is kind of a crime against humanity. and in a lot of ways i think that the fact that there Is legitimate art being made for advertising purposes can kind of stop people from wanting to or being willing to condemn advertising. it lets people get tricked into becoming unpaid guerilla marketers without even realizing that’s what they’re doing, because they want to engage with a piece of art on its own terms, and they don’t realize that ‘its own terms’ are not the terms on which a piece of art used for advertising is being shown to them.

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  8. thestarbot said: @lobotomysauce This could just apply flim for all audiences when you think about it
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