What is the difference between an artist making art for a gallery and an artist making art for their living room? Does this distinction matter? Why or why not? Where do your ideas come from?
When people are asked to make art for a gallery, I feel like it is a different mindset than making art for their living room. In an art gallery, you know that your work is going to be put on display, so that means that it needs to look precise in everything as well as give off the right connotation to the viewers. On the other hand, art that is in your living room, can have a lot more emotional influence as well as be a little bit more messy, because the only people who will be seeing your artwork are the people who come over your house. I feel like for an art gallery, there is more of a goal in mind for what you want your art to look at because it will be critiqued more but for your living room, the pressure of how your art turns out is not as high.
Ideas come from either personal experience of imagination. It can either be things that have happened in the past that are able to be created in a picture form or things that have been imagined but have not happened that want to be created into picture ( or other ways).