Edit or Publish Saved Feature: ArtWork: Preparing A Professional Portfolio
"One must live. It was simply because I didn’t have enough money. One must do something to eat. Eating, always eating, and painting for the sake of painting, are two different things. Both can be done simultaneously, without one destroying the other."
1) What Kind of Artist Are You?
2) What Do You Want Your Portfolio To Do?
3) What to Include in Your Portfolio: Compiling and Selecting Art and Verbal Information.
4) Selecting a Physical Format.
5) Organizing Your Portfolio Thematically and Graphically
6) Constructing Your Portfolio
Hopefully this information provides a decent set of guidelines to get you started on the path of employment or notoriety and fame, whatever your pleasure. But remember, a job should be a means to an end. It’s easy to get caught up in the craziness of the work world. It makes us feel good to receive praise for the work that we do, but defining our own self-worth on the opinions of our colleagues and employers is a slippery slope. It feels good when we’re in their good graces, but the bottom line is that the end goals of the organization are not necessarily the same as yours. While some compromise is inevitable, be aware of what you’re sacrificing. I began this article with a quote from the artist Marcell Duchamp because I thought it conveyed the necessity of work, without placing too much value in it. I’ll conclude with another gem from the same set of interviews to help put into perspective this whole mess of art, work, life etc.
"I like living, breathing better than working. I don’t think that the work I’ve done can have any social importance whatsoever in the future. Therefore, if you wish, my art would be that of living: each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It’s sort of constant euphoria."