I recently processed the paperwork for the sale of a modern art sculpture that is worth more than what I make in a year. I don’t know anything about the medium so I don’t know if the work is technically impressive or not, but it looked terrible. The work was purchased with public funds. Judging from the amount of work this artist has produced, it couldn’t have taken her more than a month to have put together. Even taking into account the cost of a studio, materials, and the gallery’s cut, she could easily be clearing six figures.
I love art, music, and film; I don’t mind the idea of these things being subsidized, but 90% of what I see galleries spending money on is garbage; it isn’t technically impressive, it isn’t beautiful, it isn’t thought-provoking. It’s hard to see this kind of thing as anything more than a con; this woman isn’t a renowned artist because the art that she makes is good, she’s a renowned artist because she knows people who can get her access to public funding.
I am interested in hearing the anecdotes of those of you who are involved in the art world. The whole thing left me questioning what I’m doing with my life.
I wish janny would stopper these stupid vague bait threads you don't know anything so you can't judge anything except actually you know 90% of it is garbage what photo of paintings will I pick for my sculpture thread name your job and the artist git it's evil to waste the time of people who are too unintelligent or neurodivergent to tell you're not operating in good faith
Not in the art world but the only time I went to an exhibition opening the art was mid, but I think it was the artist's first gallery opening so no hate. Halfway through a tall, beautiful blonde in a black diamond-shaped cleavage cutout dress and large breasts walked in and drew far more attention than any of the art.
post a picture of the art in question or how can I have an opinion
I haven't thought about this aspect of the art world. I'm not into art and am ignorant of it's history and trajectory. However, I have made attempts to view and engage with the arts in museums in cities I visit. I often find myself disappointed with the art I see. Almost every piece seems so detached from reality. Not in the way that a surrealist piece is intentionally detached, but rather it as if that the piece itself gives me no evidence that artist has interacted with reality in a meaningful way. Its like their bound by the artists experiences, and we live in such a commoditized and commercialized world that it bleeds through the art in unappealing ways. Many pieces are expressing sex, bodies, texture, color, culture, foods, and shapes, all things that are in abundance in this world of products. I study botany. I love plants, especially native plants. I love the free gifts of nature that plants represent. However, I see plants in art and I can instantly tell that the artists only interaction with plants is in controlled environment of the modern world. Lawns, monsteras, roses, succulents, ivies, and the list goes on. All plants that are bred for scale and commercialization. Ripped from the context of European woodlands, south east Asian and central American rainforests, South African arid plains, and on and on. I am rambling, basically I find myself less appreciative of how man views the world, and how man chooses to express what this world is to them, every time I leave a gallery. And maybe what you described is the reason, a bunch of unengaged insiders looking to achieve something to make a bunch of money so they can go on and live a hollow self centered life.
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Relax bro, I wasn't expecting I was going to say that much and I got lost in the sauce. However, fair point, I should be better at organizing my thoughts in a way others can engage with them pleasantly.