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What makes the world call Van Gogh and lets say Andy Warhol, an “Artist”?

I’m thinking about Van Gogh’s mother and brother. The world considershim a great artist with a passion and an obsession to paint and get hisemotions out onto the canvas. If he lived today would be thought of asa great artist or a loser? What did his mother think of him? Hisbrother believed in him and kept him in paint and paid the rent, buthis art did not sell when he was alive. Hmmmm, what makes the world call Van Gogh and lets say Andy Warhol, an“Artist”? Why does their art…

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A handmade work becoming an Artwork

Hello- Found this question thru Bim’s website and I had to respond. I wrotea truly BRILLIANT response the other day, and then it disappearedinto cyberspace!! (easy to say it’s brilliant when it’s gone!) I make driftwood furniture and sell my work through galleries,juried shows and the like. I have been VERY fortunate in having afew mentors along the way to guide me through the process ofmarketing artwork. WIth this posting, I pass along some of thelessons I was taught, as well as some of the experiences I’ve had. Ido not…

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Artworks price bargain

A different Idea that came from Dan of Woodworking group. The main idea I see here is:The PLACEMENT of your show is affecting its price, and the place you are is influencing client psychology for accepting or not the price you are showing. So for making your work as valuable art object; either you should show in fine arts shows or the best on my opinion is to show in your shop. Your shop should be placed at a quality street. But quality doesn`t mean luxury and over priced shops. The…

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What is a successful artist?

It is not as much your work that people are willing to pay a highprice for it is your name. A name is what brings more value to apiece. The workmanship is very important but not as imortant as thename. The name in a business takes a long time to build unless youhave a lot of avertising money but even then it may not work.Marketing is an art in itself. some times it is best to hire aprofessional to do that job and you focus on making art.Art is worth…

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How to be an artist?

Hi, Being a teacher for many years I use to offer this little story. The question is what is a true artist. An artist is creating abeautiful castle at the beach and time just slips away. There it is amasterpiece in his mind and a feeling of joy as the last bit of sandgoes on. In the mind of the artist “it is perfect”. At the time itdoesn’t matter that the tide will soon come in and wash away hismasterpiece. He doesn’t think about that fact the it might not…

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What makes you called an “artist”?

Jack, I think I understood the problem you are facing. And I think thismust be a general problem for most people in this group.So if I may repeat what you said, in other words: What is the final touch that will change a craft to an object of art? The upcomming action to do that comes to my mind is to invite someartist to this group and to let them share their ideas with us. I`llstart my search and my invitations today. I would like to encourage all of you…

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Why art has a greater price: the value of handwork

There was a product prices study that I read quite a few times ago.The study was made by a Chamber of Commerce. So the prices of raw material , for example cotton is lets say 2$per kg Cotton treated so as it becomes ready to use, the price is 4$ perball of wool The ball of wool becoming a pullover sold with the price of 16$ perpullover A branded pull over is sold to the price of 50 $ The lesson to take from this story is, the product that…

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Presentation of the art works at shop

I made a search in the internet about glass art works,I found some interesting sites. Some of them got even free patterns.Also some of them are teaching how to produce your own pattern. Some interesting part of this job that I found was about furnituremaking with engraved glass and with metal. Iis the site of Dan McKinley. I think it will open new horizsons to your job.Another thing I noticed is that some art works are used byArchitects and Interior Designers. Also one more important thing, is the presentation of…

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Art products: categorizing, pricing and advertisment

Hi, I have made just a tour of Internet to learn more about Papier Macheand I put some site that I found in the links section . I suggest you take a look in them. For bettercommercializing your products you should also know what mycompetitor produce, and then you should decide in what way you aredifferent from them. Also here are some other tips:For growing in this business (or any other), you can use manymethods, Art Products : categorize your artworks First option is to be very creative, Original products…

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Some Monochrome yahoogroup artists contact:

Happy Magpie – Amy Schulz http://happymagpie.com facebook.com/Happy-Magpie-LLC Frank J Zaharek Jr – former President of IILG : http://www.iilg.net/ International Internet Leathercrafters’ Guild – a must visit if you are interested in leathercrafting also interesting link about leather carfting: https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/ Bim Willow – Artist, Furniture Maker, Gardener, Author, Teacher http://www.bimwillow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/bim.willow http://www.gardenartists.cc/Bimwillow/bimwillow.htm Rusticfurnituermakers.com / Rusticnetwork.com / willownetwork.com / worldslargestchair.com Dead Links Richard Bullock – Rustic furniture www.rusticfurnituremakers.com – Link is dead unfortunately https://tr.pinterest.com/richardbullock5/

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