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Guardian of dill, as I have artist friends in different countries, I can say that the successful cooperation with a good gallery-all a very difficult achievement of the artist. The Commission has been more willing to take, but it is not co-operation, and the commission, the work may lie in store for years. The cooperation involves constant promotion, exhibitions at the gallery, in national and international shows and guaranteed income artist, whether he has redeemed all or any part of the work.
"What is this absurd gulf of misunderstanding from your point of view?" - IMHO, the reluctance of both sides and a lot of hard work for nothing. Gallery does not want contact with the artist without a name, because it was confident that sales will not be enough, they will be cheap, and the exhibit of the artist here and there - an expensive business. The artist did not want to give work cheap and do not want to look for replacement, commercially successful stories and art, te create things in his manner, but more or less guaranteed to sell. There is a suggestion that the commercial plots is a bazaar for artists, but this is a naive statement. Picasso in 1930, when he was already recognized as a world genius, at the request of the Vollard, let's make a thread that commercial! - It makes for a series of lithographs known as the Vollard Suite, sweet pastoral scenes, the poet and the muse, nudity, flowers, bulls. .. It is easy to see that all created for Vollard has nothing to do with what was then the painting of Picasso. It was a side of the creative process of a commercial project. A special problem for Russian-gallery-business - is not hereditary, but often people involved in them in the hope of quick money. In the West, art dealers often is a family profession, and then the dealer is not necessary for a song in a hurry to dump assets in connection with the transition to trade shoes, he passes it to his son, grandson, and a collection of works of the 100-year-old is not a collection of works 5 years ago, anyway.
 Finally, Russia has re-evaluation of self-worth and professionalism as galleries and artists. I'm looking for a familiar Irish artist-as it plows the waves creates a wide range of works by size, quality, and did not scruple to 5-20 pounds per Ibee something sells at fairs, best-in auctions, te fills his work all the existing space. Here in Russia since been made.
The Internet has given to all new possibilities, but because the fact is that the artist is engaged in the sales - that means spending your time effectively, because the sale and promotion of works of art, it is a different specialty, requiring another device brains, other professional circle of friends.