GalARTA, when I first arrived in America, at night, January 1, 1990, at the airport in San Francisco I met a man in a car and drove to town, entertaining conversation. It was not a taxi driver and not hired "six" in the wings. It was one of the richest people in America do not know, it was believed his condition, in hundreds of millions or billions of them was still a family, America has called him simply Dzheymc Henry IV (suspended). In San Francisco in his office waiting for us men and struck up an interesting conversation about "restructuring" and buduyuschem planet Earth, which I did not understand half because of the lisp Henry James IV plus me sleepy on the difference in time zones - 11 hours from Moscow .
Then I was young to not think, but now often wonder, now that they moved (at the same time he held the Internet in Russia and much equipped in Russia (and many who) - white bone, an aristocrat, mulmillioner rode at night to meet the flight from Moscow of a a lousy Russian? A-he wanted to be part of something bigger, he wanted to change the world around them and in myself and he wanted to do it all myself, personally, with his hands. He could not afford it.
Life does not consist in the possession of more or less money. And the art business is not only money and not just because of money.
In my reply to you was not sarcasm, nor despair. I can not sell the picture-in my financial situation is absolutely nothing will change. But I sold them because I need a real human recognition and a real audience. If he had paid for my picture its hard-earned money, so I did something worthwhile. Something real.
On the cost of paints, canvases, I say this because many people think that the production of a picture is worth 3 of the ruble. We must speak, and the cost of the process and that is the preparatory work, spending money, too, that no artist can not sell 100%of the work, so too it is laid in the price. And visit the studio to practice drawing hands, too, costs money. And exhibitions are a lot of money - the buyer should know about it - of what constitutes a cost picture besides the talent and ambition of the artist. No complaints about it.
Of course, you're right, man is so constituted that wants to intrigue, wants to return investments. But along with this person wants to beauty and harmony. Many are buying pictures because of this. "Iron" business people that "no place for empathy, compassion, understanding," make me smile ... probably because in 1990, Henry James IV gave me a shot of this tinsel.
|
