I think it's still quite amazing what they're trying to do.
This will also strongly reinforce their perceived value as "secure & legit". I mean, $1M+ Warhol on Amazon?! This is big! http://amzn.to/1ctu0w2
Am I the only one excited/seeing the potential?
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Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
Find your local art college and attend their graduation show.
I cannot agree more. There will be a lot of so-so, but... there will be some stunners as well. Not sure where all these people end up, but there are some amazingly talented young artists out there... many of whom can and do produce better art than most of what you will purchase at an art auction. They just don't have the name or the history yet!
Often a single collector or gallery will make all the difference for a young artist. One single person that buys enough of their art for them to make it on that part-time coffee house job and still pursue their art.
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You're too poor to own art whose primary defining characteristic as art is that it's too expensive for poor people to own.
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
Why don't digital prints count as art? I have some lithographs that I got framed, they look amazing.
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Art is a racket. Not art as the human endeavor of expression, or art as the appreciation of beauty. Art as a business is ABSOLUTELY a racket in the same way that dutch tulips were a racket once upon a time. Nothing wrong with that at all in my book.
for the most part, art is a system that society affords itself to observe itself.
Please explain what that statement means, serious not snarky.
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You're too poor to own art whose primary defining characteristic as art is that it's too expensive for poor people to own.
Link to poor people art please? (And please don't let it be Homer Simpson art---i.e. garbage smashed together. And I don't count digital prints as art.)
You could commission a new piece of art and it wouldn't cost as much as some of those: https://artistsnclients.com
Disclaimer: I am dev/founder of A&C
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Art is so completely subjective. In a house I bought, we found a painting by an artist named Marshall Merritt - we see his paintings being sold for $10k - very similar in size and composition. But when we had it appraised, the appraiser told us $300. Go figure.
Aside from a portrait of my wife, my favorite art purchases have been from Robert Tinney, who did the covers for Byte Magazine from the early 80s. He sells his "limited edition prints" directly. But the point is not that it is an investment, but that I actually just really find pleasure in his work. His is the only art that I've bought online - and only then because I already had a copy of the work in question as a magazine cover!
I notice that the Amazon works are all sold and shipped by individual galleries. I wouldn't be surprised if you could purchase directly from them for considerably less than via Amazon.
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My guess is "soon" we'll have a 500 dpi full color e-ink kindle to admire rentable art. And perhaps a giant e-ink kindle to hang on the wall for exactly that purpose. One of my long term "in my infinite spare time" projects has been to build a nice small (well, what passes for small now...) HDTV size digital picture frame and rotate artwork on it. I figure if I can keep the capital cost under a couple hundred bucks (…
If you come across e-ink prices for TV-sized formats (e.g., 30-60" diagonals), let me know. At the right price, I think there are a lot of interesting things that could be done.
This. Even black and white panels would be quite useful.
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#79The only thing I discovered after browsing through that site is that I am too poor to own art.
The example of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel shows that that's not true if you're willing to work at it: http://mentalfloss.com/article/48844/how-working-class-coupl...
Thank you, that's a really inspiring story.
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#80it's funny that this might be Amazon's solution to s similar set of problems that Paul Graham wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html
I wonder if the art market can really be disrupted in this way, or if there's something intrinsic about buying art in a gallery that makes it "unamazonable"... (who orders a $10,000 painting online?)