Should We Be Scared?

Worry about what?

Someone might break into the kids preschool classroom and steal their scribbles and finger paintings.

We paid a fortune for a Twomby here years ago..."Director's" choice, Art Gallery NSW, Australia.....meh !
They missed their chance....sigh....maybe it's who you know?

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you can worry if you want. there is a lot of trash in museums these days. its all about who you know and how they can convince others that the stuff has value. art museums that sell, aren't really places that have meaningful art. but also keep in mind that people can find a meaning in anything - if someone points it out to them. all you have to do is wear a nice suit, look confident and point out to a stranger what it all means, and really get into it. then leave and watch that person explain it to another.

everyone wants to think they are smart, and this is a nice test for them.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Scared that no one will buy vintage posters? I don't get it.

There as many different art buyers as there are different artists.

Wanna' become a millionaire?

Easy peasy... only 4 steps:

1. Lean a blank canvas against a wall
2. drink too much
3. barf on the canvas
4. sell it

That one sale should set you for life.

(There are enough arrogant, pretentious, irrational, pompous "art critics" out there to make it so)

Edit: oops, forgot something. The title. It can be worth a few extra bucks.

Title your barf-covered canvas something like "Life" or "Human Existence" - something for the pretentious crowd to discuss - and it should bring in a few more millions.

Gagosian likes to think they're on some cutting edge of art, or something. They also love to be in the news. It's all marketing bs, if you ask me. But some people, just because Gagosian is world famous, with 16 gallery locations in major cities, think they must be the last word on art. They also exhibited Jeff Koons' Balloon Animals, and the crowd went wild.

No, we shouldn't be worried.

In the perspective of our times I view this work as being rather conservative. As far as value it would depend on influence on other artist, historical context and of course hype. The way I view it is work of this type would be boring for me to do, so I am just not that interested. I do not equate money and art so no worries.

No new ideas there. If it was a few hours earlier, I'd go back to sleep.

Dave

In my humble opinion, yes we should worry, but it won't do us any good.

I like to worry a lot about whether I'm enjoying life enough, you know first world challenges.

I wish someone would share that bad and baffled professor's opinion, the one where he makes his students critique his painting apron as significant art by Jackson Pollock.

Or if you are Warhol Dan, you pee on it... but only after someone else in The Factory paints it tor you.

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Susan Maxwell Schmidt
So-so Board Moderator and
Artist Extraordinaire

Off to follow Dan's advice

#4 is the hard one.

You know, we should be scared..... That there are so many absolute numpty heads out there spending money on this.

Of course we should be scared, but that's nothing especially new. For the past century or so "Art" has been walking a thin line between craft and scam. 51% of it is about convincing a customer or gallery owner that what YOU sell is art, even if it amounts to puking in a bucket. Honestly, I've seen worse, even in museums. I get frequent invites to openings in local galleries where I'm expected (personal loyalty) to attend, look like I'm interested and act erudite. Generally, it's worth the hour or so for some chat and snacks, but I could write books about the things I've seen nailed to gallery walls. That whole "eye of the beholder" thing has never been more true but it's the world we have lived in for a while now, so, off I go to the hardware store to buy a couple buckets.

The up side to this is that nobody can tell you what whatever it is that you do is NOT art. We don't have a panel of crusty, bespectacled experts who sit behind their desks giving thumbs up or down to new art.

It's simple enough....if you don't like it, don't buy it.