When politicians do it, it's called a gaffe. Saying aloud what you're thinking without censoring yourself or considering your audience that is. Sometimes the dark side temps me with a gaffe when I'm faced with another plea to look at someone's paintings and tell them whether they're good enough...
Good enough for what, doesn't really matter, though it's usually about approaching a gallery for having an exhibition, and a solo one at that. When someone asks this question, in my experience they're really looking for reassurance, outside verification, not the blunt and/or honest opinion they say they are. Quality in art is extremely subjective. It's not a simple equation of "good art sells, bad art doesn't". A trip to any art gallery soon shows you that.
Selling five paintings at your local car-boot sale doesn't necessarily mean there's a market for your paintings. Someone could've bought them because it was a cheaper than buying new canvasses. But it would be a gaffe to say so.
You know in your heart when you are good enough to enter the art market. If you don't believe in your paintings, then how can you expect the person you want to exhibit and sell them to believe? Is that blunt enough?
See Also:
• 7 Ways to Price a Painting
• What Hurtful Things Have People Said About Your Painting?
Good enough for what, doesn't really matter, though it's usually about approaching a gallery for having an exhibition, and a solo one at that. When someone asks this question, in my experience they're really looking for reassurance, outside verification, not the blunt and/or honest opinion they say they are. Quality in art is extremely subjective. It's not a simple equation of "good art sells, bad art doesn't". A trip to any art gallery soon shows you that.
Selling five paintings at your local car-boot sale doesn't necessarily mean there's a market for your paintings. Someone could've bought them because it was a cheaper than buying new canvasses. But it would be a gaffe to say so.
You know in your heart when you are good enough to enter the art market. If you don't believe in your paintings, then how can you expect the person you want to exhibit and sell them to believe? Is that blunt enough?
See Also:
• 7 Ways to Price a Painting
• What Hurtful Things Have People Said About Your Painting?
Comments
good point. I got a lot from this.
Thanks, that made me laugh, it is so true. I have seen a lot of art for sale that was less “creative and beautiful” as some of my art.