The buyer and the artist: Ritual purchase

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Сообщение от Marta

I have very rarely met with buyers, but as a rule, the meeting was, or in the studio, or in the gallery. Customers are always very interested in "what he meant by". I remember being amazed that I tracked down a German buyer who purchased a pair of work a hundred years ago and came with photos, rasprosili about every detail in the work + make out something that I'm not nearly had in mind and also tried to find out what means. And work has already gained the period in which we met. Generally on "what he meant by" had requests repeatedly. I had to sometimes write comments to work. Sometimes it came to the pathetic situations - had to help colleagues articulate what actually work (with a matching, of course), because many artists can write and talk about the subtext of the work can not, consider it literature. I understand that customers interested in seeing an artist to understand that it moves and why he wrote this or that work to penetrate his attitude and conduct any parallels with your own and see what the artist wrote two .... Five years later, and so . "Actually, interesting and memorable contacts occur exclusively with European customers, our, in my opinion, anyway. I do not know how they choose the picture - under the interior, or what? However, we have very little and bought.

It's all very sad ... for the artist. Again confirms that buying rather than the actual painting, and image and brand. Therefore, the artist has to deal not peculiar to the artist - to inflate the brand, think of where and what to say, how to look, where to go, whom to be friends, etc. ..