Is designing a building art? What about a website? How about directing an advertisement or designing the title sequence for a television series? Is researchin

Is designing a building art? What about a website? How about directing an advertisement or designing the title sequence for a television series? Is researching information for a historical documentary an artistic or scientific vocation? Is such a harsh delineation even suitable? Level design for a game? Texture design? Concept art? Designing the circuitry for a synthesizer? Many people are creating art for a living, though you may not see it as such. In fact, the authentic problem could be identified as society's very narrow definition of what "art" is. Artistic vocations are all over the place, and the prerequisites for entering such a career are just as, if not arguably more demanding than those for "technical" careers such as software engineering. There's also frequently overlap between technical and artistic vocations and they exist side-by-side for many businesses so I disagree with the notion that people can't make money selling art (including the one belonging to the parent poster).