Comments on: A lot of mediocre art can be a good thing http://artandperception.com/2006/05/a-lot-of-mediocre-art-can-be-a-good-thing.html a multi-disciplinary dialog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Karl Zipser http://artandperception.com/2006/05/a-lot-of-mediocre-art-can-be-a-good-thing.html#comment-192 Karl Zipser Sat, 06 May 2006 09:51:00 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/v01/2006/05/a-lot-of-mediocre-art-can-be-a-good-thing.html#comment-192 There are many artists, and there are even more potential buyers. In the current art world, the galleries are a kind of bottle-neck: the artists need to pass through a relatively small number of galleries to reach the larger public. In the process, the range of expression gets limited. The internet changes this, and allows essentially direct matching between artist and buyer. This should allow an individual artist to find the buyer who understands his or her personal vision. I would not underestimate the buyers' ability to understand artwork, once they get the chance to see it. Whatever you can express, there is probably someone out there who can appreciate it. There are many artists, and there are even more potential buyers. In the current art world, the galleries are a kind of bottle-neck: the artists need to pass through a relatively small number of galleries to reach the larger public. In the process, the range of expression gets limited.

The internet changes this, and allows essentially direct matching between artist and buyer. This should allow an individual artist to find the buyer who understands his or her personal vision. I would not underestimate the buyers’ ability to understand artwork, once they get the chance to see it. Whatever you can express, there is probably someone out there who can appreciate it.

]]> By: Angela Ferreira http://artandperception.com/2006/05/a-lot-of-mediocre-art-can-be-a-good-thing.html#comment-191 Angela Ferreira Sat, 06 May 2006 09:13:00 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/v01/2006/05/a-lot-of-mediocre-art-can-be-a-good-thing.html#comment-191 Dear Karl Zipser, thanks for commenting on my blog. Regarding this last post of yours I would like to even go further when you wrote the following “In speaking to many artists, I have heard about the hopeless feeling of never being able to break into the art world, the world of dealers, curators and collectors (...)”. I would like to discuss the possibility of an artist who does not suit the Art world now, that maybe his/her work is of such individuality and theory that doesn’t go with the line or style of any gallery available making the internet the only exhibition option available. Many of the great past artists were largely unrecognized during lifetime and the internet nowadays is a brilliant innovative way to expose any work to the world. I don’t think that “not fitting in” should discourage artists and discourage their artistic production but it should be a reminder of the remarkable vision that goes beyond our times. Dear Karl Zipser, thanks for commenting on my blog. Regarding this last post of yours I would like to even go further when you wrote the following “In speaking to many artists, I have heard about the hopeless feeling of never being able to break into the art world, the world of dealers, curators and collectors (…)”. I would like to discuss the possibility of an artist who does not suit the Art world now, that maybe his/her work is of such individuality and theory that doesn’t go with the line or style of any gallery available making the internet the only exhibition option available. Many of the great past artists were largely unrecognized during lifetime and the internet nowadays is a brilliant innovative way to expose any work to the world. I don’t think that “not fitting in” should discourage artists and discourage their artistic production but it should be a reminder of the remarkable vision that goes beyond our times.

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