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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kardinalisimo, post: 158334, member: 118&quot;]First, some of the terms. I used to confuse professional with trained artist. To me, a pro is someone who does art for a living. It does not mean he or she is highly trained and skillful. </p><p>Then, what is a trained artist? Someone who has a background in art, like school, classes etc ? But you can be self trained/taught and still be a great painter.</p><p>Amateur, someone who does art as a hobby and not selling his creations. So, amateur can still be trained, maybe went to school, but never became a professional and tried to sell his art. </p><p>Another classification would be an entry, mid level and advanced artist. Again, nothing to do with skills, just how long one has been involved in art, what kind of experiences he or she has, trying different styles and mediums etc...</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, yoy have the different styles. Go figure that out. Abstract, expressionism, naive art, surealism .... You may like it or not.</p><p>But to me you can usually tell, nomather of the style, if an art was done by an advanced and skillful artist. The piece has to have heart, soul, charm, life.... Not being stiffed and look like the artist suffered making it...</p><p><br /></p><p>And then you have the commercial success. It can be based on skills, popularity or simply on luck. One may say some of the million dollars selling art is not worth a dime. And then you have thousands of artists selling on local level or not selling at all, some of them deserving to show up on Christies catalogues...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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