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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its funny, I look at what I call consumer art, and see people that go into art gallery's and buy these paintings for 5 or 10 k and then breathlessly think that they're going to be able to sell it dodwn the road.
Meanwhile guys like Robert Bateman has come up with a cheap system of mass producing his art by tracing and Goddard makes god awful olive art that might as well be painted on black velvet and people snap them up like its some kind of investment.
Bleah.
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I have an artist as a client who mass produces original images (probably $30 to $250 per framed print) and has many, many, many millions of dollars as a result. An artist but very much a businessperson.
I have another artist as a client with original works selling in the $15,000 area or more. The National Art Gallery had a display of the work and its toured internationally. Also very successful and wealthy.
You don't have to be a starving artist. You just have to find how to create value and see if you can do it while staying theoretically true to some sort of artistic conviction. Or maybe that last part isn't important.
Cowperson