‘Judge for yourself its believability and then try to tell yourself, wherever you may be, it couldn’t happen here.’ Spiritually, he stands with Galileo, because he knows the world is round.’ Not that it matters much, when his editor knows it’s flat.’ Socially he ranks somewhere between a hooker and a bartender. ‘Sherman Duffy, of the New York Herald once said ‘A newspaperman is the loneliest guy on earth.
There are limits to that kind of thinking in fine art, but he wasn’t entirely wrong.The Night Stalker (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1972) “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success,” Edison also said. If the public square doesn’t reward you at all, you need to improve your communication skills, either with a brush or in words. However, the marketplace is also an intelligent voice of criticism.
Think of all the horrid art you’ve seen in hotels and doctors’ offices. That’s the story behind the 1863 Salon des Refusés, which inadvertently legitimized Impressionism. It’s true that the marketplace often rewards mediocrity and conventional thinking. We all harbor the secret belief that we’re geniuses, and the cold hard light of the public square exposes all our weaknesses. You will also be surprised and comforted at seeing those who are not.” The pressure of being seen makes you strive to do better and exposes you to artists who are better than you.
Paint in public, sign up to sell, create an Instagram account. “Put yourself out there, bare naked in the middle of the street. Mark told me he’s not doing it to make money, but to improve as an artist. That’s why I did my first show decades ago, and the result has been a career in art. “I had all these paintings hanging around,” she told me. How, then, did they muster up the courage to put their work out there? Importantly, both are realists who understand exactly where they fit in to the continuum. Both are at the phase where style and technique are starting to gel. Karen came to me from Bobbi Heath’s beginner class some time last year. He started with me when I started teaching on Zoom during the pandemic. Mark has been painting for about two years. Neither of these painters are lifelong artists who secretly nurtured genius until their Big Reveal.
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