In my opinion, any unsold artworks are assets that have not yet been
converted to cash or other comodities. Then there are copyright,
reproduction incomes possible. So I don't have any expiration dates on
any artworks by me. Everybody else in almost every other field
considers the ongoing value of their efforts. Why artists do not value
what they do is a mystery to me and if one does not value his one work
then -of course - it is hard to consider expending effort in creating a
market for it. But hey, all the better for me, less glut in the market.
But to be sure, the more artists needing and seeking a market, the more
a market develops. Maybe we need to joinly do a campaigne encouraging
people to buy more art products. You know like the milk industry. Got
Art? Fluxus artists should not be encouraging the average idiot to make
his own art we should be encouraging the average idiot to buy our art
at low cost 'popular' prices. Sell them art kits in a box! Why not? We
should all develop a fluxbooth and send each other fluxjunk to sell to
Johnny Q Public; unlimited editions of stuff. unlimited collections of
stuff! Stuff, stuff everywhere. That was one of the original impulses
of fluxus wasn't it? A buddy invited me to go to a "by invitation only" Peter Max exhibition yesterday here in fort worth. It was a hoot. Peter Max has about a dozen roadees that set up a constantly traveling carnaval of Peter Max art junk ranging in price from about 2,000.00 to 20,000.00 or so. 40 exhibitions a year! He's doing the Thomas Kincade thing of making lithos and then slopping some details on them and selling them as "mixed media" original art. Then there he is, a guy that looks like Ben Stiller's dad, talking to 'collectors'. Meanwhile the roadees are working the crowd trying to catch that impulse buyer overcome by the proximity to pop fame. There are some little paintings on canvas and some on paper, all framed and the peter max book. When you start looking at it everything, he's got about 10 or 15 images that he paints over and over again without too much variation. It is kind of like a fluxus artist performing the same 15 scores over and over again. things like: Paint a sunset, Make a Print of that sunset, Paint on the print of the sunset, repeat above with an angel, a guy with an umbrella, etc. Frame everything in black, sell for uncomfortably high prices. only respond to potential marks with statements like, "You should buy it becuase you love it", "You shouldn't buy art for investment but for the love of it", "How much can you afford?", "That's my favorite one too", etc. It was wild. Cecil http://neoplasticism.com Rod Stasick wrote:
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- FLUXLIST: Thursday Art Lunch at 1:00 Cecil Touchon
- FLUXLIST: Pippin of chapped commiseration Rod Stasick
- Re: FLUXLIST: Pippin of chapped commiseratio... Cecil Touchon
- FLUXLIST: criterion? Rod Stasick
- FLUXLIST: ABSTRACT SOUND POEM #002 - Friday... Cecil Touchon
- FLUXLIST: ABSTRACT SOUND POEMS #001 - Frida... Cecil Touchon
- Re: FLUXLIST: Book 2 - #100 - 9/24/2004 11:07 AM Rod Stasick
- Re: FLUXLIST: Book 2 - #100 - 9/24/2004 11:07 AM Rod Stasick
- Re: FLUXLIST: Book 2 - #100 - 9/24/2004 11:07 AM Cecil Touchon
- Re: FLUXLIST: Book 2 - #100 - 9/24/2004 11:07 AM suse
- Re: FLUXLIST: Book 2 - #100 - 9/24/2004 11:07 AM Carol Starr
- FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Melissa McCarthy
- Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Kathy Forer
- Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Ann Klefstad
- Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Kathy Forer
- FLUXLIST: Art Junk SPRING CLEANING Cecil Touchon
- RE: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Allan Revich
- Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Kathy Forer
- Re: FLUXLIST: Physical stuff Ann Klefstad