Posted on 07/30/2013 5:03:16 PM PDT by neverdem
I am all about being self employed!
However, Art is a luxury item* and who are their customers?
*in good economies art can be an investment
Thanks for the update! NC is now blank. It came from an old source.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811878/posts
Availability of food is the core issue.
The quantity of food produced is an issue and so is the quality. Small farmers are thought to produce higher quality and organic produce.
Obviously; people with excess money to spend.
But; let me defer to an expert...
Possibly true; but the small ones cannot produce ENOUGH to feed the masses.
If they could; they'd be BIG farmers - wouldn't they!
I doubt the masses EVER had control of their food supply!
It was over production (efficiency) at the farm that allowed the MASSES to be created in the first place.
No longer needed on the farm, they found other things to occupy their time and effort.
One of the jobs created was a middleman to bring and deliver the excess food from the farms to the cities.
THAT's the dude that is making all the money!
Just like during the gold rush - the middlemen who supplied the miners ended up making most of the profit.
My take is that lots of big money is shifting into fine art because everybody knows the economy is going to tank big time. Our big show this month, Maynard Dixon Country already has 200 RSVP's. Artists of this type seem to be coming on strong. Hope we do well this year as the last four have not been good.
You are most welcome. It’s quite all right!
This young artist shows promise.
Not if the limited audience is wealthy and has a collection including 52 other Scouting Rockwel's. The painting will certainly be displayed with the others in the gallery in the National Museum of Scouting in Irvine Texas
When I said limited audience I was referring to the lack of sophistication of certain buyers right now in this crazy economy. They are buying names and not necessarily paying attention to the art itself.
Would I appreciate the painting? Absolutely! But I am an art dealer for forty years and have sold this type material over and over. Wish I had sold this one. It brought $15 million.
I for one an not going to shed too many tears if epi-centers of progressive thinking like Marin county are being forced to take on low cost housing projects that might affect their lofty property values.
Of course I don’t know, but would strongly suspect that BSA would want it for their gallery. They might not have the money but have wealthy benefactors that do.
I visited the gallery and was blown away. There they were, the Rockwell paintings reproduced on the calendars, the magazine covers and all the places where the paintings were and are used to promote scouting.
http://www.bsamuseum.org/Exhibitions/Rockwell.aspx
I have on my office wall a copy of one of his works that appeared on the cover of the Associated General Contractors magazine. I had an artist in Manila copy it for me.
I don't agree. They could produce enough and better quality food but have been elbowed out, to put it nicely, by BigAg and companies like MOnsanto who spend millions on lobbying and bribing the "folks" in Washington to write and pass legislation in their favor.
Maynard Dixon and NC Wyeth are favorites of mine.
Their work is Brilliant.
A gallery in Tucson shows a lot of Maynard Dixon style work. Awesome place to visit. But a farm art gallery would be double the pleasure.
mark for later reference.
Wow. You are very very very blessed.
I do not know if NC Wyeth moved beyond illustrating books or magazines; his son succeeded as a fine artists, but I think the dad was under-appreciated. Anyhow, to view an NC Wyeth original, as in viewing a Dixon original, is extremely thrilling.
Thank you for promoting Maynard’s work through the decades.
You ain't kidding. And I get to meet and discuss art with all of the great landscape artists in America today. They all come here.
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