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Modern Art ?
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I like art, but the traditional stuff. I just do not get this modern rubbish. But if there is a quick buck to be made, then maybe I could like it !
Could someone tell me how to exhibit or sell this modern stuff for loads of cash ?
Could someone tell me how to exhibit or sell this modern stuff for loads of cash ?
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I paint myself, usually in oils, and I love the modern abstract stuff. but I cant do it to any great effect. This is because I do not have a very vivid imagination. I think the thing to remember is people have to like it and then they will buy it.
Also I hate when artists explain abstract art on those silly little notes they pin to them. I like to see the colours and shapes combined. I recently bought one called "tour de France", it is abstract but from a distance you can see that it might be lots of bikes. The artist used lots of different colours and the background was red. I had just the place where I could put it and it would go with the decor.
Also I hate when artists explain abstract art on those silly little notes they pin to them. I like to see the colours and shapes combined. I recently bought one called "tour de France", it is abstract but from a distance you can see that it might be lots of bikes. The artist used lots of different colours and the background was red. I had just the place where I could put it and it would go with the decor.
Of course what we call traditional art today may have been shocking in its day, and maybe seen at the time as rubbish.
Van Gogh was not considerd a great artist while alive and he sold only one painting during his life. Now his paintings sell for multi-millions.
In the world of music you cannot get more traditional than Beethoven, yet when his music was first played they thought he was a madman.
Stravinsky is now considered a great composer, but when some of his music was first played people booed and walked out.
Mind you I have to say people like Tracy Emin are con artists who put together any old rubbish and call it "art" purely because they call themselves an artist. And idiots buy it.
Van Gogh was not considerd a great artist while alive and he sold only one painting during his life. Now his paintings sell for multi-millions.
In the world of music you cannot get more traditional than Beethoven, yet when his music was first played they thought he was a madman.
Stravinsky is now considered a great composer, but when some of his music was first played people booed and walked out.
Mind you I have to say people like Tracy Emin are con artists who put together any old rubbish and call it "art" purely because they call themselves an artist. And idiots buy it.
I remember a radio phone in a few years ago. They were discussing modern art and had a modern art "expert" in the studio.
Some guy rang in and said how he thought most modern art was rubbish. He said what was to stop him putting a load of bricks on top of each other and calling it "art"
The art expert in the studio said "it would not be art because you are not an artist"
So there lies the rub.
If I left a load of dried baked beans on a plate it would just be washing up.
If Tracy Emin or Damien Hurst leaves a load of dried baked beans on a plate it is art and someone will pay �2000 for it.
So if you want to make lots of money from modern art, first convince people you are an artist.
Then put together all sorts of strange items, give them pretentious names, discuss them as being "a thought provoking study of the 21st century in relation to climate change" or some such rubbish.
And charge �1000 for each of them.
It worked for Tracy Emin.
http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/
Some guy rang in and said how he thought most modern art was rubbish. He said what was to stop him putting a load of bricks on top of each other and calling it "art"
The art expert in the studio said "it would not be art because you are not an artist"
So there lies the rub.
If I left a load of dried baked beans on a plate it would just be washing up.
If Tracy Emin or Damien Hurst leaves a load of dried baked beans on a plate it is art and someone will pay �2000 for it.
So if you want to make lots of money from modern art, first convince people you are an artist.
Then put together all sorts of strange items, give them pretentious names, discuss them as being "a thought provoking study of the 21st century in relation to climate change" or some such rubbish.
And charge �1000 for each of them.
It worked for Tracy Emin.
http://www.tracey-emin.co.uk/
When I first saw Picasso I thought "what a load of b*******". Then I saw some of his early paintings. The man could draw, paint, handle colour, the lot. The progression from there to his later work was logical. When someone who can paint ( or compose) well in a traditional style produces something completely different then I think it's only fair to at least give it a chance. That said, I don't remember Picasso piling a lot of bricks in any gallery.
I did like a couple of stories I read the other day. One piece of modern art was hung upside down in a gallery for several years without anyone noticing. In another case a painting was hung by mistake on its side and sold. The artist would have corrected the error only the next time they saw the picture it was hanging in a friend's house, still on its side, so that became the "official" way to hang it!
I did like a couple of stories I read the other day. One piece of modern art was hung upside down in a gallery for several years without anyone noticing. In another case a painting was hung by mistake on its side and sold. The artist would have corrected the error only the next time they saw the picture it was hanging in a friend's house, still on its side, so that became the "official" way to hang it!
What do you think of this piece of modern art?
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/ rain-steam-speed.jpg
Turner wasn't exactly universally admired in his day either and yet he's one of the most important artists ever.
But to your original question - selling anything for large amounts of money is all a matter of generating confidence that something someone buys can be sold later for as much or more.
Gold's just a shiny metal after all.
The best way to do that is to get famous and stay famous - Hitlers art was nothing special but sold for over a hundred thousand dollars a piece.
Getting dead helps too because you can't produce any more - I guess you'd be against that though
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/ rain-steam-speed.jpg
Turner wasn't exactly universally admired in his day either and yet he's one of the most important artists ever.
But to your original question - selling anything for large amounts of money is all a matter of generating confidence that something someone buys can be sold later for as much or more.
Gold's just a shiny metal after all.
The best way to do that is to get famous and stay famous - Hitlers art was nothing special but sold for over a hundred thousand dollars a piece.
Getting dead helps too because you can't produce any more - I guess you'd be against that though
I'm not overly fond of messy bedrooms (can do that myself), soup tins and sheep cut in half either.
However I love Dali.
It just depends. Any new art form at one time was modern and open to all sorts of criticism. Some don't get recognition for paving the way til long after their bones have turned to dust.
By it's very nature art is subjective. I think it's great to push the barriers. It gets people talking at the very least. But like anything under this genre (films, books, music etc...) I ain't necessarily gonna like it!
However I love Dali.
It just depends. Any new art form at one time was modern and open to all sorts of criticism. Some don't get recognition for paving the way til long after their bones have turned to dust.
By it's very nature art is subjective. I think it's great to push the barriers. It gets people talking at the very least. But like anything under this genre (films, books, music etc...) I ain't necessarily gonna like it!
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