You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
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Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#2Underrated piece. In many creative or specialized subfields, some of the best work is being done for peanuts or being given away. Prices are generally thought of as ruled by supply. demand, and product quality, but inferring the latter from the first two really only works in terms of commodities that are relatively fungible.
Preferential attachment is a large and underappreciated (by most) factor. You could do experiments by uploading the same piece of media under different accounts, both within and across platforms, and using aggressive promotional strategies for one as a kind of A/B testing. One will perform much better than the other.
Then follow up with the opposite approach; add another piece of media, and have the less popular account use the more aggressive promotion strategy. It might still do less well, as there can be a halo effect from the previous success.
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#3Underrated piece. In many creative or specialized subfields, some of the best work is being done for peanuts or being given away. Prices are generally thought of as ruled by supply. demand, and product quality, but inferring the latter from the first two really only works in terms of commodities that are relatively fungible. Preferential attachment is a large and underappreciated (by most) factor. You could do experi…
This strategy kinda selects for "great at SEO and promotion", not "great at art".
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#4I saw a great commentary from an art gallery owner on Tiktok about the "inherent value" of art. The inherent value of art is zero.
That is, the art itself has no inherent value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it.
One thing that can help is having receipts of what you've sold an artists work for in the past, since you can use that to inflate that amount a current piece will sell for.
To put it another way, how good of an artist you are is secondary to how good of a salesman you are (or how good of one you hire on your behalf) when it comes to making a living.
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#5I saw a great commentary from an art gallery owner on Tiktok about the "inherent value" of art. The inherent value of art is zero. That is, the art itself has no inherent value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it. One thing that can help is having receipts of what you've sold an artists work for in the past, since you can use that to inflate that amount a current pie…
Not trying to be a dick, but it's "inherent".
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#6Read as pretty pompous?
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#7Art, in its current state, has been fully commercialized in that if you don't have someone who is "in the know," then there is very, very slim chance of being successful. I was briefly in the art world (paintings) and everyone wanted to kiss the successful dealers' asses to get exposure and get a curated exhibition. W/o it, nothing's going to happen. It's sad but that's what it's become.
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#8I saw a great commentary from an art gallery owner on Tiktok about the "inherent value" of art. The inherent value of art is zero. That is, the art itself has no inherent value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it. One thing that can help is having receipts of what you've sold an artists work for in the past, since you can use that to inflate that amount a current pie…
This is a capitalist view of value, but it has flaws in relation to art. The problem is that art does not exist in a vacuum.
To get at the real value of art, something that is not a necessity, you would need to somehow query every individual in a way where they had all their needs met and enough expendable income to use on art so that they would seriously consider buying it. But it can't be too much wealth or the situation is trivialized. The context puts a lot of restrictions on when someone is willing to buy an aesthetic good that doesn't provide other functions.
Yet, as a society we can recognize that art benefits us on a social and intellectual level. So a society as a whole may want to patron some artists, regardless of what they make. This is an inert value for art, a recognition from society that there is value there, even if they don't know it exactly and wouldn't buy it for themselves.
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#9I saw a great commentary from an art gallery owner on Tiktok about the "inherent value" of art. The inherent value of art is zero. That is, the art itself has no inherent value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it. One thing that can help is having receipts of what you've sold an artists work for in the past, since you can use that to inflate that amount a current pie…
> That is, the art itself has no inherit value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it.
This goes for any good or service. Usually when people talk about the "value of something" they mean "the price that people are willing to pay for it".
Re: You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected
#10I saw a great commentary from an art gallery owner on Tiktok about the "inherent value" of art. The inherent value of art is zero. That is, the art itself has no inherent value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it. One thing that can help is having receipts of what you've sold an artists work for in the past, since you can use that to inflate that amount a current pie…
> The inherent value of art is zero.
So is the inherent value of gold, sans its use in electronics and dentistry.