I recently ran across an art website that acts as a go-between for artists and collectors. Naturally I was excited, as I've been trying to find someone to help sell my work for what seems like forever. I sent them an email and they said they would contact me. Apparently not everyone gets in....outstanding! It will be much better if they separate the chaff from the wheat, it makes the site look much better. At least that's my thinking. After playing phone tag with a really nice lady named, well, maybe I shouldn't say, I finally got some info on their submission standards. High quality images, prices, location it all sounded great and it all sounded like stuff I already had. I emailed them my website so they could check out my gallery and verify that I had high quality work. I waited all weekend to get a phone call back from them. Finally on Monday I got an email which read:
"Your work is provocative and high quality, although it is not quite right for our market. Most of our clients (both buyers and renters) are going for more abstract contemporary “emotionally neutral” pieces."
How do you get emotionally neutral art? Isn't that contrary to what art is? So I looked up the definition of art. It reads:
"the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance."
Does that sound like it could be emotionless? I've also tried to think of something that could be considered art that is emotionally vacant. I've got nothing so far. Even a canvas painted white stirs something in the viewer. Maybe not as much as an emotionally charged piece of art, but it evokes somewhat of a stirring in the soul. I'm thinking this is going to bug me until I can find an example of such art. I also wonder what collector would want something like that. If you think of something, please let me know.
DOUG
AKU ANG HARI
www.ArtworkOfDougBaltz.com
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maybe they meant to say...
ReplyDelete"while your art is very beautiful and thought provoking we ,as our clients, were looking for something more mind numbing. Some sort of commercialized sterile product that would ease our clients mind instead of provoke or engage them."
sorry bud hang in there.
-spider villainy
Well Spider, you're probably right.
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