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Too many 🎨 Artists
I'll make this brief.. Saatchi art website has over 2 million works of art for sale. There are thousands of commercial galleries in the world. Theare hundreds if not thousands of art schools around the world turning out hundreds, if not thousands of freshly minted, diploma in hand artists. There has been discussion that perhaps there are too many artists. This debate is well captured in a 2018 BBC radio program: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yh007 The fine art market is small. The supply greatly outnumbers the demand. And this is the issue. The demand could be much larger. Art is not marketed, developed...
Climate change and the Arts
#artists #critics #environment #nature
https://sustainablepractice.org/category/artists-and-climate-change/ https://canadacouncil.ca/spotlight/2020/01/the-arts-and-climate-change# My recommendations for those seeking solutions via the arts
Goals
Do you think Picasso, Dali or Rembrandt set their goals every year?..day? Hard to imagine Mozart's quill leaping across music sheets because he felt a need to achieve a gold star in his planner. Are goals then silly for artists? This is fodder for a PHD thesis "Art as a goal". I imagine most of us think of creativity and mark making as a way of being. The art flows from our inner being.
New logo
Out with the old in with the new! Just five weeks into our launch and we've rebranded! Why you ask? Better a logo that reads well while it reflects my personality. I'm not really a fussy guy. Also this will look sexy on a 👕. Am I right ✅?
Tools of the trade
I go insane in an art supply store. I have heaps and heaps of supplies. There is no medium and no support I have not tried - except the art suppliers are up all night inventing new goodies. And I gotta have them. Got to. This attachment to new and the latest distracts from the truth. I need very little. I've discovered that I need large brushes and very few of them. And sadly they should be hardware store brushes. Fancy tools are not me, they aren't the art I make. I do messy organic intuitive stuff. A large brush...