Produce original, organic Art.
The problem with the Art market is that once it discovers great Art it turns it into factory Art because it offers the Artist what they do not have fame and fortune, to produce similar works.
This is a very difficult time for many Artists, they can produce similar paintings but the same and earn a good living, ever doing the same painting, variations of a theme and the fear of changing, now that I am well known and earning a good living, stops them from moving forward and doing new creative original work. The problem really compounds if they decide to do new work and it does not sell, immediately they will go back to the tried and true sellers, never to go forward again.
So they become a factory, with a production line and the works continue, small differences but the same. Perfecting the perfect, small changes and beautiful work but factory work and slowly becomes paint by numbers.
It slowly looses it originality and becomes their trade mark paintings and they all look the same.
So is the Art market wrong?
No it is not.
It is a commercial enterprise that sells paintings and of course if they find a good seller they want to keep selling it.
The Art market has a legitimate place to trade in a product the people produce, paintings.
It is selling paintings that may start off as original and organic, but sadly the process of commerce turns them into paintings that sell and people want more of the same painting and then the Art market wants to mass produce them so they get more sales, which is understandable.
Artists need to control their creative future.
How can we do that?
We really need to be like Picasso.
Picasso was more than his paintings, he was Picasso.
He loomed larger than his work and he could change as much as he wanted and it did not effect his sales, he never became a factory painter, he was always the Artist, Picasso.
The lesson for every Artist is to strive for all the success that you can get and in doing so do not lose your original, creative, organic style, that is you and that is what you have worked so hard for.
Keep pushing the Artistic envelope always, even against the call to profit out of repeating your popular paintings.
It is a decision that only the Artist can make but Artist beware, the factory cometh.
This is a very difficult time for many Artists, they can produce similar paintings but the same and earn a good living, ever doing the same painting, variations of a theme and the fear of changing, now that I am well known and earning a good living, stops them from moving forward and doing new creative original work. The problem really compounds if they decide to do new work and it does not sell, immediately they will go back to the tried and true sellers, never to go forward again.
So they become a factory, with a production line and the works continue, small differences but the same. Perfecting the perfect, small changes and beautiful work but factory work and slowly becomes paint by numbers.
It slowly looses it originality and becomes their trade mark paintings and they all look the same.
So is the Art market wrong?
No it is not.
It is a commercial enterprise that sells paintings and of course if they find a good seller they want to keep selling it.
The Art market has a legitimate place to trade in a product the people produce, paintings.
It is selling paintings that may start off as original and organic, but sadly the process of commerce turns them into paintings that sell and people want more of the same painting and then the Art market wants to mass produce them so they get more sales, which is understandable.
Artists need to control their creative future.
How can we do that?
We really need to be like Picasso.
Picasso was more than his paintings, he was Picasso.
He loomed larger than his work and he could change as much as he wanted and it did not effect his sales, he never became a factory painter, he was always the Artist, Picasso.
The lesson for every Artist is to strive for all the success that you can get and in doing so do not lose your original, creative, organic style, that is you and that is what you have worked so hard for.
Keep pushing the Artistic envelope always, even against the call to profit out of repeating your popular paintings.
It is a decision that only the Artist can make but Artist beware, the factory cometh.
To be continued….
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