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If they've got all of the starving but none of the talent, they're GiftedlyBad. If they are still in art school they are also a StarvingStudent.
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If they've got all of the starving but none of the talent, they're GiftedlyBad. If they are still in art school they are also a StarvingStudent.
StarvingStudent. If they wear shabby clothes and eat mac & cheese because they're ''trying'' to project the image of being a struggling artist, they're probably a {{hipster}}.
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* One PatientOfTheWeek on ''{{House}}'' was an artist who couldn't sell any of his work and participated in clinical trials to get money so he could hide this from his girlfriend.
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* One PatientOfTheWeek on ''{{House}}'' ''Series/{{House}}'' was an artist who couldn't sell any of his work and participated in clinical trials to get money so he could hide this from his girlfriend.
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* There's a homeless artist ("Will paint for food") in ''LeastICouldDo''.
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* There's a homeless artist ("Will paint for food") in ''LeastICouldDo''.
''LeastICouldDo''. The character is based on Lar [=deSouza=], a friend of the author who really was a homeless artist for a time. Years after the creation of the character, [=deSouza=] took over as artist for the comic strip.
* Crusader in''JayAndCrusader''''JayAndCrusader''.
* Crusader in
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Because MostWritersAreWriters, the Starving Writer is a common protagonist in these circumstances.
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If the Starving Artist has relatives, expect them to be pushing for the character to "grow up" and "get a real job". Generally, if success is elusive, expect them to eventually take up a steady but unfulfilling job with a boring, bourgeois lifestyle, or to die tragically.
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If the Starving Artist has relatives, expect them to be pushing for the character to "grow up" and "get a real job". Generally, if success is elusive, expect them to eventually take up a steady but unfulfilling job with a boring, bourgeois lifestyle, or to die tragically.
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*Alfons Mucha, rather than keeping his cushy job with Gandegg, first studied in Austria and then at Paris where his subsidy was cut off. He lived on one meal every other day, making this exactly what it says on the tin. He did it all For The Art, and wished he didn't have to do so many advertisements.
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If they've got all of the starving but none of the talent, they're GiftedlyBad.
GiftedlyBad. If they are still in art school they are also a StarvingStudent.
Because MostWritersAreWriters, the Starving Writer is a common protagonist in these circumstances.
Because MostWritersAreWriters, the Starving Writer is a common protagonist in these circumstances.
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* The ''DoctorWho'' episode "Vincent and the Doctor" focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* The ''DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Vincent and the Doctor" focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* The DoctorWho episode 'Vincent and the Doctor' focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* The DoctorWho episode 'Vincent and the Doctor' focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* When Caitlin gets a VisitByDivorcedDad in [=~Caitlin's Way~=], ''[=~Caitlin's Way~=]'', he is a potter and his lack of money gets him blamed for a counterfeit scam.
* TheDoctorWho ''DoctorWho'' episode 'Vincent "Vincent and the Doctor' Doctor" focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* UndergroundComics artist DoriSeda.
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* The Bohemians in ''MoulinRouge'' -- all of whom are so absinthe-addled and otherwise quirky that it's not hard to see how they can't keep steady employment even in world Montmarte.
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* ''OfHumanBondage'' has the protagonist and all of the supporting characters in this situation at some point; the view of the artist ranges from one committing suicide because they have completely starved, and the others romanticizing it and foolishly comparing it all to LaBoheme.
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* Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan in ''{{An American in Paris}}''.
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* Gene Kelly GeneKelly as Jerry Mulligan in ''{{An American in Paris}}''.
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* Many webcomic artists and indie game developers tend to be this (or support their job with a steady job like retail). The few artists one hears about spending several years of pure work on something generally aren't as starving as one thinks. For instance, the creator of Braid was able to spend the two years working on just Braid because he was able to spend 200K of his own money on the project.
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* Wallace from ''SinCity'' is an artist who has a great deal of talent but his perverted boss demands that he make pornographic artwork. He refuses and barely has enough cash to scrape together. Dwight, an aspiring photographer had the same problem with the same boss.
* Wallace from ''SinCity'' is an artist who has a great deal of talent but his perverted boss demands that he make pornographic artwork. He refuses and barely has enough cash to scrape together. Dwight, an aspiring photographer had the same problem with the same boss.
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* The protagonists of ''Design for Living'', played by Gary Cooper and Fredric March, are a starving painter and playwright respectively. March proudly declares "I write unproduced plays," and Cooper freely admits his annual salary is zero and that he survives "on miracles."
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* ''{{Rent}}'', the [[InSpace modern update]] of LaBoheme.
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* ''{{Rent}}'', the [[InSpace [[SettingUpdate modern update]] of LaBoheme.
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Due to several influential artists having historically been starving artists, the inherent dramatic potential of being talented but cash-deprived, and the appeal of living a life without material possessions, these portrayals are often quite romantic.
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Due to [[TruthInTelevision several influential artists having historically been starving artists, artists]], the inherent dramatic potential of being talented but cash-deprived, and the appeal of living a life without material possessions, these portrayals are often quite romantic.
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* ''The Poor Poet'' (pictured above) is a painting by Carl Spitzweig that depicts this.
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* ''The Poor Poet'' (pictured above) is a painting by [[DichterAndDenker Carl Spitzweig Spitzweg]] that depicts this.
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* ''SunsetBoulevard'' has Joe Gillis as a starving Hollywood screenwriter.
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* The title character of {{Franz Kafka}}'s ''The Hunger Artist'' not only doesn't make much for his completely under-appreciated art form, he represents this trope in the most literal way imaginable by using self-starvation as his medium. Kafka himself was an example.
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* The title character of {{Franz Kafka}}'s ''The Hunger Artist'' not only doesn't make much for his completely under-appreciated art form, he represents this trope in the most literal way imaginable by using self-starvation as his medium. Kafka himself was an example.
** Though Kafka's art wasn't his livelihood, and he never even attempted to publish his works, and ordered them destroyed in his will - a clause which thankfully wasn't fulfilled.
** Though Kafka's art wasn't his livelihood, and he never even attempted to publish his works, and ordered them destroyed in his will - a clause which thankfully wasn't fulfilled.
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* The DoctorWho episode 'Vincent and the Doctor' focused on the starving artist Vincent Van Gogh. As mentioned in the RealLife section, Van Gogh's paintings never sold well when he was alive, and the episode focuses heavily on the man's mental health on account of this, his depression, and his psychic visions which makes him seem crazy.
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* And of course ''{{Rent}}'', the [[InSpace modern update]] of LaBoheme.
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* Ruth Sherwood in ''Wonderful Town'' is a starving writer in Greenwich Village.
* Ruth Sherwood in ''Wonderful Town'' is a starving writer in Greenwich Village.
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* {{Doraemon}} - Doraemon and Nobita go back in time to help a starving artist at least once, and on another occasion tried to use time travel to buy the works of a now famous (and obscenely rich) painter. [[spoiler: They ended up buying a painting made by Nobita's father, who apprenticed under the artist as a college student.]]
* {{Doraemon}} - Doraemon and Nobita go back in time to help a starving artist at least once, and on another occasion tried to use time travel to buy the works of a now famous (and obscenely rich) painter. [[spoiler: They ended up buying a painting made by Nobita's father, who apprenticed under the artist as a college student.]]
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They've got little money, and lots of talent. Being an artist isn't a career with steady pay, and art supplies are expensive. Artists that haven't quite reached commercial success (or haven't got picked up by a wealthy patron) often live poorly.
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They've got little money, and lots of talent. Being an artist isn't a career with steady pay, and art supplies are expensive.[[CrackIsCheaper expensive]]. Artists that haven't quite reached commercial success (or haven't got picked up by a wealthy patron) often live poorly.
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* FlightOfTheConchords play Art Camp counsellors in an episode of ''TheSimpsons''. It turns out that when Art Camp is out they work at [[BlandNameProduct Sprubway]], where they get all the sandwiches that drop on the floor.
-->'''Bret''': Unless we drop them on purpose.\\
'''Jemaine''': They have cameras on us all the time.
-->'''Bret''': Unless we drop them on purpose.\\
'''Jemaine''': They have cameras on us all the time.
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* [[http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/ David]] has no day job, he just makes comics with Paul. But it's shown this nets them no income.
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* NickDrake spent much of the latter part of his life living with his parents off of a £20-a-week retainer from Island Records. Eventually that stopped too.
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*JamesJoyce lived much of his life in poverty, and by extension his AuthorAvatar Stephen Dedalus, in ''{{Ulysses}}'', does as well.
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