It’s Only Art?

The people who buy, collect and invest in contemporary art are the true heroes of tomorrow’s culture.  Those collectors, who buy contemporary art from solid artists with a personal vision, are creating a collection that shows some connoisseurship.  This is the kind of connoisseurship that will give the culture something more than the commercial buzzwords, hype and flashing lights.

If you get a chance have a look at the following seven articles that I believe give some information and goodviewpoint on collecting contemporary art.  Some of these articles are about investing in contemporary art or buying art generally.

Most Influential Artists
Billionaire Art Collectors
Top 100 Contemporay Art People
Buying Original Art
Investing In Art
Original Contemporary Art
Abstract Art

The jist of these articles pushes the buying, collecting and investing in contemporary art works by contemporary artists as good for the collector of art and the future of the art world as well as the culture more generally.  I didn’t write them but I like them.

- Daniel Ferris

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then I will bet that eroticism is also in the eye of the beholder.  Erotic art has its artists, critics, students, collectors, and “lovers”.  To describe the range of  tastes, interests  and  definitions in erotic art you can surf the internet and briefly pick up on what I would have to call a vast diversity.

When you review what mainstream cultures have labelled as erotic art - as differentiated from other such labels as unerotic art, pornography, cultism, fetishism, blasphemy, etc - you find that it depends to whom, where and when you are talking to know what is erotic and permissable.

I recently wrote a piece on Nora Ness for CAG that provides a perfect example of what I consider erotic.    But at the rate that the internet is changing cultural views worldwide there is a real possibility that what Nora is doing is not only erotic but also Performance Art and  Photography Art as well as Concept Art.  In only a week’s retrospection I would now  add  that Nora’s  work  is  quickly becoming  Pop Art.

And one of the most interesting features about Nora Ness, besides her body and erotic expressivity, is that she is doing truly multimedia creative projects.  I believe her experimantation with backgrounds will drive her work even further - not only in strength of composition - into the Concept Art and Pop Art domains, simultaneously.  Artistic eroticism is nearly mainstream.  I personally hope Nora will put together a CD of her images and copyright them for sale. I think she is a pioneer.

- Danie Ferris

This is Art Reveiw magazine’s annual list. Arthur Browning just reviewed it at CAG, if you want to read his article about the list.

-  Daniel Ferris

My friend Tia Marks recently published a piece in Ezine.com about the process of commissioning works of art.   She covers  the  process of finding  an art style that you like, negotiating price and terms, receiving and displaying the artwork

In addition to the general discussion, Tia adds the example of her own purchase of commissioned works from  artist  Brad  Bannister.  Bannister has a website - http://abstractpainting-bannister.com  that she began with.   Below is one example of Bannister’s work.

Daniel Ferris

I have to announce, and toot my horn a little, the successful launch of Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine for Business and Collector Art News. I’ve been writing there, which has slowed my output here. Hopefully I can bring on a few more artist and art blogger interviews soon.

Let me know if you want to work on any joint projects.

Daniel Ferris