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 | | These things were all created by visual artists, who make art that audiences can see: paintings, drawings, prints, engravings, glasswork, video and film, photographs, Flash animations—even that wacky gallery installation you saw that featured a ladder to the ceiling where a small piece of paper reading "Yes" was mounted. |
 | | The visual artist transforms raw materials—different colors of paint, for instance, or unused film, or a giant block of marble—into works of art: things meant to be beautiful, to inspire, or to provoke. |
 | | The starving artist is one of the oldest clichés for good reason: Even if you have talent, technical training, time, and tenacity, it's quite possible that you'll never really earn a living from your work as a visual artist. |
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