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RE: Tuesday Oils and My Neighbor Looking Me Over
I am really happy I never have conversations like these since my childhood and the beatings artists cannot make a living and art is useless (said by those having a membership card for the musea and theatre...).
Indeed Alex will never be noticed simply because he decided at forehand it won't work. Lack of motivation, lack of creativity, not much lost in paintings without a spark of his soul.
P.s. Salesman you said... Who knows he spreads the word and your art will be more known thanks to his complaining. 😉
Welll said, and you’ve been fortunate not to have the open criticism. I recall not too long ago volunteering for an exhibition set up at the local art association. Another volunteer asked me what I do for a living. I told him I was a painter. He just shook his head and laughed, like I was being cheeky or something. It could be my own projection mostly, but I feel in this working/middle class bubble, a man choosing art while raising a family, is nothing less than a bum, a beggar. It doesn’t matter that my wife and I chose this route because she is the better bread winner. Patriarchy has deep roots in this society. I took on all the traditional roles that a married woman would be responsible for a half century ago. And because of the chip on my shoulder, I think, in retropect, that I took on these roles to the extreme. Scratch cooking every day, raising the daughters, home schooling them to high school and then college on full scholarships. And always finding time to create predawn, or late at night, exhausted.
Alex is the norm, and I accept it now without that chip on my shoulder. Age wraps up the story you told with life.
I have told arrogant salesmen who swear they could sell mousetraps to mice, that a mark of expertise in their field would come from success at selling one of my paintings. Not one has taken me up on the offer. Even when I tell them to mark it at any price and take half. No takers. No salesman sales.
More proof that art is not a commodity—a very hard sell, like air.
And yes, negative publicity is still publicity:)
Thanks always for taking the time to read my posts:)
You don’t need to justify yourself to me. In my family, the women always worked; my mother was the breadwinner, and I’ve always been the same – alongside being a housewife and who knows what else. The most important thing is that we do what we’re good at and find fulfilment in it; that’s what matters most in a relationship and a family. I would have loved to have had a creative parent, like some children did at primary school. I know one was a potter, another wove reeds and did fretwork. Nobody thought that was strange or inferior. All the pupils learnt these things, just like etching, playing the recorder, singing and drawing. I miss schools like that these days. How can you be creative if you never get the chance to try it out?
I think it’s also been drummed into us that art is inferior and that it’s only art if it meets a certain set of criteria.
I believe there’s an art market coming up in June where the painting group will definitely be present. I plan to be there and we’ll see if I can get people excited and, of course, reap any potential benefits.
It’s a shame none of those representatives took up the challenge; I certainly would have. A real salesperson can sell anything, no matter what it is (as an employer once said to me when I was providing information about a care home. It’s true, I could have sold a load of rubbish back then too. What a salesperson does need is enthusiasm. If Alex can really paint, he’d be the right person to sell art. Unfortunately, he seems more dead than alive, and he won’t get very far with that hammer.
By the way, I wanted to ask you if there’s a logo for Free Art, or is it ‘Artists and the Entire Population’?
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Both! I think Edgeworth is making a logo. And yes, it is also, “Artists and the Entire Population”:)
Here in the U.S., the pendulum is swinging. Young people I know aren’t buying into a world without art and freedom to experiment. Many are refusing to work 40-50 hours a week laboring for money but no chance at security. Why bother? Owning their own homes is nearly impossible, no matter hour worked to death they are. I am confident that a better world is coming. Fruitful for more people. An anti-greed revolution of every day life. No more Teslas, and frugality and non-participation in systems that deplete will become the new black.
I used to pin on my website and offer to anyone to sell my paintings at any cost they want. Just get me a hundred bucks per, and keep the profit. No takers.