Hug Your Local Artist
66Million Dollar Rip Off
Jackson Pollock's " Number 5" painting sold in 2006 at a private auction for $140 million dollars! The artist painted it in 1948 and he died eight years later at the age of 42. No painting can be worth that amount. The dead artist did not get anything out of it nor will any future artist get a scholarship!
http://most.expensive.net/painting-in-world
Can spending $140 million on a single painting be justified? Good taste cannot be bought. Art is about life.
Can I get a million dollars for this painting?
The Struggle
Society gives dead painters, composers and musicians priority over living artists. Imagine a few artists have entered the room but no one notices them because the room is filled with posthumous artists!
Struggle is a part of life and it comes in many forms. Nevadans expect to see paintings of cows frolicking on the sagebrush and any artist who doesn't paint cows may feel kicked to the curb. The artist should brake the mold! Break it now!
Studio executives refuse to read screenplays from unknown writers. The executives equate unknown with untalented. They are wrong! The screenwriter should get even and make their film.
The Free Hug Movement
In 2004 an Australian named Juan Mann discovered a wonderful way to reach out to people. He offered free hugs to strangers. This is good idea for bad economic times, for people struggling in a wealthy society, for artists, especially for everyone!
Poeple holding "Free Hug" signs offered hugs to people in England, Croatia and numerous locals around the world.
Is Posthumous art over valued?
Does Society focus too much on dead composers, musicians and painters?
See results without votingAre Tragedy and Fame Connected?
Life is fragile. An artist experiences success and then endures a lifethreatening event.
Chuck Close is a famous painter known for huge photo realistic portraits. In 1988 he suffered a blod clot so severe that it paralyzed him from the neck down. He recovered and is able to paint with a brush tied to his wrist. He works collaboratively on paintings and prints. People are drawn to him now more than ever.
http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close
http://www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu
Dale Chihuly is a famous glass artist whose career was going well then suddenly in 1976 he was in a lifethreatening car accident. He flew through the windshield his face was badly cut and he lost sight in his left eye. What did he do? He recovered and works with people on making the most beautiful glass chandeliers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly
There is a tragedy in Sweden. A model commited suicide after posing naked for an artist. Were there any warning signs? Could anything have been done to prevent it? Horrible but true, now the artist will be more famous!
Warning: always try to find attention from good deeds.
Hugs are they just for best friends and family?
Would you dare hug an artist?
See results without votingThought Provoking Art Video
Nudes
Why do nudes fascinate painters? They are fascinated with the human form the way the contours thrust into negative space.
Mary Beth Mc Kenzie from NY paints people dressed as well as naked. Her nudes are interesting in that they seem to be intimate, lovers are intertwined and they don't mind being watched.
http://www.marybethmckenzie.com
Performance Art in The Buff
Are Peta members artists or protesters?
When protesters crouch naked in cages in front of a restaurant is it art or protest? The bare skin offers the viewer something to look at but doesn't the message get lost in the sheer nakedness?
http://www.javno.com/en-lifestyle/photo--peta-protests-at-jamie-olivers-restaurant_244541
Music: Defining the Moment
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is an iconic piece for the sound of horror and the listener expects to see Dracula rise out of a dusty coffin. When the organist stomps on the pedal the instruments almost purrs. The music is lovely but it doesn't describe life today.
Restlessness
Is it fair to call Carl Johan Landgren's "Mobil Till Alphonso" avante guard? He surprises the audience by including ambient noise with his somber classical piano piece. Someone in the background fights the zipper off his down filled coat, squeaks on a parquet floor and coughs. The restless background contrasts with the somber piano piece and adds tension as if someone is waiting for an important phone call.
Modern
Rap artists describe life that revolves around them without looking away from the injustice and hardships. If they don't tell the story who will?
Noise artists explore music without inhibition. Lucifitias's "Ritual Xul" rages a violent storm and the music feels like brain floss. Rosa Eivissa's "Water" declares that bathing is a sacred ritual.
Artists Among US
Everyone buys groceries. Some buy 20 lbs of dog food at a time and others sample dirty grapes in the produce section. Some of these people paint and some tweak a Moog or Korg synthesizer. Artists walk among us.
Reaching out is a two way street. Give it a try.
Are you Old School, Digital Maniac or Eclectic
What is your favorite instrument?
See results without votingHug Your Local Artist in the News
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Hi Aya Katz! Thanks. I wasn't sure if was weird to post my own self portrait. It was a few years ago when I had bleach blonde hair.
Thanks for the positive comment. :)
$140 million, who gets the money, surely his family should get some. It does seem that you are worth more when you're dead. Even authors. Sad, eh?
True, Cindyvine. You do have an accurate observation about the things around us.
Thanks for visiting!
HUGS!!! I love artists, dead and best alive!
Hi IslandVoice thanks for sharing your love of artists. April 7 is my birthday so I'd like to offer virtual hugs to all of you and recommend Compu-smart's Famous Birthdays hubs.
Many HUGS!
Happy birthday! I'll take the virtual hug.
Thanks IslandVoice, you fabulous artist!
this is a brilliant hub yahooooooooooooooo. You are extremely talented Raven King. No I don't think the price is justified,give it to the poor......
Happy Birthday to a sweet beautiful Hubber I am coming to love very much.x0x0x0xx0
Awe thanks! HUGS to Blondepoet. You are super!
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Did you do that painting up near the top of the page ???
Yes, I painted it. Oil on canvas with references photos. Now, I don't remember why I painted myself with my eyes closed? Strange. Haha.
How are you?
I'm great thanks and you....Oh boy you painted that, that is just soooooooo good.I would kill to be able to have your talents in that department. Do you paint often?? A bigggg thumbs up for being so artistic lol
I'm fine. I painted it a few years ago. Thanks for the thumbs up. I don't paint often.
You Blondepoet are sizzling HOT! Fabulous, fun and people love you. ..and I am one of your biggest fans!
Awww thankyou so much that means a lot it really does.You just gave me a smile longer than the Amazon.x0x0x0x0x0x I am tongue -tied.
Okay, you're all artists on here so big hugs to all of you on this beautiful bright spring Thursday with unbelievably blue sky not often seen in China!
Hey Cindy big hugs to you while all this love is going around LMAO
Now, I am totally speechless and smiling...
Hey Cindyvine are you really in China? Big HUGs!!!
Blondepoet Big HUGs!!!
LMAO, absolutely!
From one alive artist to another.........BIG HUG!
Hi Peggy W. BIG HUGS! xoxo.
Well, well Raven, I'm late. happy birthday my fellow, uh, well you're the artist, I'm only a painter, shall we hug anyway? I never knew, you never let on. I feel so, so, stupid for not having read more on you now. damn! *pinching my self* love the self portrait.
Oh, I'm crreepy and temperamental too. still do I get a hug? hehe
Raven and C.C,.......how about a group hug?
Great post..says an artist who loves to give hugs and get them :-)
I really enjoyed reading your hub on the Forbidden Gardens in Texas, lovely photos. Great idea Peggy W. Yes, let's group HUG!!!!!!!!!
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Hi C.C. Riter. You are an absolute doll. Thanks for the birthday wishes. I like the painting of the lady in the bathroom because she has a mystery lover and you captured her tan lines very well. You are too humble. Of course, you are an artist! You are a poet and a painter. Creepy...you...no! Yes, you you get many HUGS!
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That's the spirit! Sharrie69 you captured it in a nut shell. Many HUGS!
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Raven King I do agree with everyone that your self portrait is a work of art.
I got more of a feeling that you captured the moment of perhaps, a blush of a compliment from an admirer ?
As an Aussie here is a big hug.
*HUG*
Hi Agvulpes! Happy Easter! Thanks for the comments and I am now blushing.
Many HUGS you fabulous Aussie!
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I love your self-portrait, even with the eyes closed! I too think you captured "her" blushing from an unexpected compliment.
As for the obscene prices post-humous paintings go for, it's just **wrong** that an artist has to be dead before his/her paintings become valuable. Does anyone but me find it strange there isn't a way to ensure heirs get the biggest chunk of auction/sale proceeds, no matter how many times a painting is resold???
Thanks for the complements JamaGenee. You certainly brought up a good question! True, why hasn't this topic appeared? Huh....
Many HUGS!
this is an OUTSTANDING Hub. I agree with you about the prices. That video is amazing. I am writer wannabe, and if I get some hugs...BONUS! Although I think my wife would probably be standing close with a large frying pan just in case )
Thanks Trooper22. Man, you are funny! That's true talent.
HUGS without the frying pan. :)
(hug) neat hub! Great portrait, by the way. I too am fascinated by tasteful nude art. Interesting stuff.
I've experienced a life threatening event and its changed me all for the better. I'm not a painter of colors, I'm more of a painter of words. Oh, and noise, as you so lovely mentioned. =)
A lot of people just don't get what noise or industrial is about...
G|M
Nudes have so much to offer. GeneriqueMedia you definately are a painter of words, I enjoy reading your hubs.
Which are your favorite noise or industrial artists?
Many HUGS!
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good hub Great portrait, by the way.Thanks
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Lgali, thanks for the compliment. Big HUG!
xoxo
What a fascinating and thought-provoking read - and I love your painting. Hugs for all artists - painters, sculptors, writers - whoever !
Hi Iphigenia. Many HUGS to you! xoxo.
This is rock solid writing and thinking. Great BIG THANK YOU for sharing your mind and truth!
Hi C.S. Alexis. I would like to give you rock solid thank you and many HUGS! xoxo
I love that you write in the face of reality even if the truth hurts! I suppose the artist's reality might not jive with mainstream society but, that is what it should be. Your thoughts are very refreshing.
Don't miss him, he's still around and adores you
Hi C.S. Alexis I really enjoyed your digital photographs especially the two toads. Very rich colors, a true treat. :)
Hi Sea Ghost are you C.C.? Well, I am blushing. :)
Hi Raven, what a beautiful idea. Can I share a hug with you then? (((hug))) I hear that a lot..how a person's work is more valuable when we are dead and it is a pity. That is why in my hub about "What Would I Do if I have a Million Dolllars?" I included the construction of a local theater building to support local artists with the theater arts. And maybe we can have an art gallery in the building too. Hmmm..that would be a good thing to visualize. Thanks Raven... :-)
Great ideas Ripplemaker. Many Hugs!
A very enjoyable and thought providing hub Raven King, and another reason to confirm my beliefs, that the art world went potty along long time ago with the pricing of paintings, art etc which was probably started by someone who had a collection of such works, and the power to make these prices sour at the beginning!
My local artist, works in the nude while other artists paint her! Im now going for some hugs!!:D
Groovy hub! As an artist myself I can only say that hugging definitely works for me! Now if I could sell more of my work as well as getting hugged, that would be a definite bonus!
Hi Compu-smart. Thanks for making me smile. I wonder about that nude artist, could it be performance art? Hey did you try to hug a nudie? Very interesting that other artists paint her. Hmmm. Many HUGS! xoxo
Hi Amanda Severn. If you have tips on how to sell your masterpieces do tell. Many HUGS! xoxo
Raven King, thanks for the hugs, and here are some right back at you! xoxo Compu-smart's tale reminds me of the occassion when I took my son to visit open houses at a local art festival. Being observant, the little guy happened to notice that some of the nude portraits on the walls were of the lady who was stewarding. Small boys voices tend to carry when they're trying to attract your attention. It wasn't long before everyone in the room knew that the woman on the sofa was also the naked model on the walls!
Hehe, this is a cute story. Thanks Amanda Severn. She is a brave lady to pose and stick around for the art show and critics. Wow! Many HUGS! xoxo
Aya Katz says:
9 months ago
Raven, I love your self portrait. I don't know if it will earn you a million dollars in your lifetime, but it must feel great that you can create something like that!