I encountered two unrelated words about artistic endeavors this week that each paint a visual picture, yet have little to do with that picture.
Potboiler - a book, painting, or recording produced merely to make the writer or artist a living by catering to popular taste [something one writes merely to put food on the table, pandering to current tastes]
Tentpole - a movie that is expected to be very successful and therefore able to fund a range of related products or movies, and hence "prop up" earnings, analogous to the function of a tent pole.
-Tom
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