Hello, Debra. Excellent article, beautifully written and informative! : ) Thank you. I don't usually read the Bold Brush article submissions because I think as most of them and write pretty much to the same messages. I'm glad I read yours, especially since I have been too long out of the art scene since I moved to San Diego, CA. Voted into the la Jolla Art Society and the Art gallery in Balboa Park, circumstances made me pull out. I am ready to get my art moving again, and hope for a place with space to accommodate my art, materials and dreams. Promotion is my current goal. I invite you to visit my site, comments welcomed! www.lbowserfineartstudio111.com I love a good conversation! I have recently published a book on my art journey, mostly articles I wrote for an Artist friend's art networking site now off the web. My book: "To Art or Not To Art" https://www.blurb.ca/user/llbowser -full preview access.
Thank you for reading. Your reply, albeit short, would show you care, as you have beautifully demonstrated. So do I! And that's the whole reason I paint. Love and blessings to you! Lorena Bowser
Thank you so much for your words Lorena, and for spending precious time with your wonderful comment. It sounds like you have a fabulous plan and are very talented. We are lucky to have you in our art community!
For the last 7 years, I have been a reemerging visual artist, formally from NYC, now in Tucson, AZ, trying to reenter this very complex art world, in a very volatile cultural environment, where any visual message must meet an undefined public, who in most cases lacks depth or comprehension of where we are coming or going.
The "old days" art critics have been replaced by gallerists and art consultants, where the "market" itself dominates the story, perhaps as Wall Street defines the financial trends, in any case, the artist is marginalized as a commodity, losing the voice or the ability to express it's narrative.
Being an abstract artist for more than 6 decades presents a double challenge in demystifying my vision and the "raison d'etre " and, at the same time liberating the viewer to how it impacts emotionally first, something that Jackson Pollack, reflected on too, in the past.
Are we all waiting for AI to define what is in or what is out?
Would love to hear more about how you feel about it.
Thanks for your reply Devy! You raise some very interesting observations. It is my belief that the nuances in their answers are very different for your path and mine. I don’t know much about the AI of the abstract art world, but in my extreme realism realm, I see AI as another tool, like photography and then photo editing software. This may morph as AI gets smarter, and maybe I just don’t have time to be good enough at it, but whenever I have tried to use AI for an idea, the horses have six legs and the people have three arms. The anatomy is never correct. So I don’t see it as any sort of threat to what I personally do.
Increasingly, friends and peers are relying on teaching and commissions for reliable income sources.
Personally, I still am in a few galleries, but I love the experiences I have in entering and attending countless annual art exhibits. I tend to do well in them with awards and sales.
So thank you for asking for my thoughts. I guess my answer is we all have to experiment and see what works best for us.
Thanks, Debra, the reference to AI was related to an automated or digital referee, not as a creative tool for the artist..which is great in that case..since sooner or later, the human labor will surely be replaced by automation, as a new "industrial revolution" takes place, are we as creative artists going to be perhaps a barcode in the future, rather anonymous as this market goes, or be able to retain our human condition, in all its form?
How do we retain our own voice and our independent expression, which is so essential in our unique task of communicating our story to the public?
There is a larger picture here, that I am trying to relate to.
My reply is to always just be myself. I am doing what I love to do, and being as authentic as possible. That’s what my collectors relate to, and those are the collectors who follow me. That’s what I communicate. So for me there is no how. It’s just what tools shall I use.
Hello, Debra. Excellent article, beautifully written and informative! : ) Thank you. I don't usually read the Bold Brush article submissions because I think as most of them and write pretty much to the same messages. I'm glad I read yours, especially since I have been too long out of the art scene since I moved to San Diego, CA. Voted into the la Jolla Art Society and the Art gallery in Balboa Park, circumstances made me pull out. I am ready to get my art moving again, and hope for a place with space to accommodate my art, materials and dreams. Promotion is my current goal. I invite you to visit my site, comments welcomed! www.lbowserfineartstudio111.com I love a good conversation! I have recently published a book on my art journey, mostly articles I wrote for an Artist friend's art networking site now off the web. My book: "To Art or Not To Art" https://www.blurb.ca/user/llbowser -full preview access.
Thank you for reading. Your reply, albeit short, would show you care, as you have beautifully demonstrated. So do I! And that's the whole reason I paint. Love and blessings to you! Lorena Bowser
Thank you so much for your words Lorena, and for spending precious time with your wonderful comment. It sounds like you have a fabulous plan and are very talented. We are lucky to have you in our art community!
Hello Debra,
For the last 7 years, I have been a reemerging visual artist, formally from NYC, now in Tucson, AZ, trying to reenter this very complex art world, in a very volatile cultural environment, where any visual message must meet an undefined public, who in most cases lacks depth or comprehension of where we are coming or going.
The "old days" art critics have been replaced by gallerists and art consultants, where the "market" itself dominates the story, perhaps as Wall Street defines the financial trends, in any case, the artist is marginalized as a commodity, losing the voice or the ability to express it's narrative.
Being an abstract artist for more than 6 decades presents a double challenge in demystifying my vision and the "raison d'etre " and, at the same time liberating the viewer to how it impacts emotionally first, something that Jackson Pollack, reflected on too, in the past.
Are we all waiting for AI to define what is in or what is out?
Would love to hear more about how you feel about it.
My warm regards,
Devy Wolff
www.devywolff.com
Thanks for your reply Devy! You raise some very interesting observations. It is my belief that the nuances in their answers are very different for your path and mine. I don’t know much about the AI of the abstract art world, but in my extreme realism realm, I see AI as another tool, like photography and then photo editing software. This may morph as AI gets smarter, and maybe I just don’t have time to be good enough at it, but whenever I have tried to use AI for an idea, the horses have six legs and the people have three arms. The anatomy is never correct. So I don’t see it as any sort of threat to what I personally do.
Increasingly, friends and peers are relying on teaching and commissions for reliable income sources.
Personally, I still am in a few galleries, but I love the experiences I have in entering and attending countless annual art exhibits. I tend to do well in them with awards and sales.
So thank you for asking for my thoughts. I guess my answer is we all have to experiment and see what works best for us.
Thanks, Debra, the reference to AI was related to an automated or digital referee, not as a creative tool for the artist..which is great in that case..since sooner or later, the human labor will surely be replaced by automation, as a new "industrial revolution" takes place, are we as creative artists going to be perhaps a barcode in the future, rather anonymous as this market goes, or be able to retain our human condition, in all its form?
How do we retain our own voice and our independent expression, which is so essential in our unique task of communicating our story to the public?
There is a larger picture here, that I am trying to relate to.
My reply is to always just be myself. I am doing what I love to do, and being as authentic as possible. That’s what my collectors relate to, and those are the collectors who follow me. That’s what I communicate. So for me there is no how. It’s just what tools shall I use.