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commercial art

[kuh-mur-shuhl ahrt] / kəˈmɜr ʃəl ˈɑrt /
NOUN
applied art
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Ms Sood stresses that Khoj operates outside the commercial art world, offering young and mid-career artists a space to explore, experiment, and "even fail if they have to".

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

“We don’t operate in this realm of exclusivity and scarcity, which is inherent in the commercial art world today.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

KAMPALA, Uganda — Lilian Nabulime hasn’t forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging artists struggled to get into.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2023

On a recent afternoon in his cluttered apartment, Herman offered a broken chair and began a circuitous account of friendship, loss and a commercial art market not meant for people like him.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2023

Adele was a registered nurse and also had an associate degree in commercial art.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter




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