The previous rant I feel is right on. HOWEVER, as Lisa points out in her comment, there is plently of good vibes in the art world today… and yes I would like some cocktails. I am extremely otimistic… If I wasn’t I certainly would not have set up the website.
I have been gorilla marketing myself to galleries in an attempt to gain someones charity to allow a new artist space on their walls. I have been met with lots of resistence. By resistence I mean that I get comments like “I sell only trtaditional works of art. I have no customers for your works.” Granted this is only one response, and I understand it… Though I can’t help but be outraged by the term “traditional”.
We all want to be up-scale, classy individuals. Which is why it seems that most consumers would go straight to the Thomas Kinkade shop or buy prints of famous art. How is this productive to a dynamic aestetic? Well it’s not… It reminds me of people sitting around sipping tea on floral print couches talking about how there was a good sale at the local grocery store today.
WAKE UP! Art should not be something that puts you to sleep, nor should it be all prints. Art buyers should be taking chances on amateur artists both as a solid investment and because they get an original… A luxury that few have in their homes. The word “traditional”… it conjurs up so much of what is wrong with the social knowledge of art. Most of who are not educated in art think that abstract works and modernism is too complicated or ithat it is a con of the art world. It simply goes back to environment, surroundings that define opinion. Forgive my arrogance, but landscape art is BORING. Look outside.
Also, for all those buying traditional famous pieces… they are famous for a reason. Most are brilliant but simply because they are numbered 1230/2500 does not mean you are special. I heard the other day that Van Gogh’s Starry Night is the most signifigant painting in history (debatable or course). That is the worst statement I have ever heard. It is a nice painting but lets not forget that Van Gogh used to drink Absinth EVERYDAY and that eventually he saw everything with a yellow tint (hence why most of his work is yellow).
So WAKE UP art lovers. I realize it is opinion that drives art, and also that abstract art is accepted by some, but the masses need to open their eyes. Am I out of line? Of course not, Man, I love this blog…
