Young Zoomer here, created Limited Edition Photographs for almost 5 years now, got published in press, Reportage and all that casual hype stuff.
Still it is almost impossible to sell and live from it or even get the Money invested in Projects back.
Is there any way to push the sells or make people FOMO in?
(Already created social media profiles sucessfully too.)
For now I think about quitting as the industry is just another trade Market IMO.
You don't.
Either you go full post-modern trash, smear blood and feces on a canvas and add gold dust and have someone say it's cool or you make money on porn commisions.
I have a studio practice in NYC. Building a career in art that you can live off is about building a community and maintaining a dialog. As an old teacher told me, if you do it long enough you will make a living and you're not making a living, you're not working hard enough. "Cold calling," advertising, or any of the other traditional strategies associated with making a business successful don't really apply, maybe with the exception of maintaining a personal brand, which is more a question of critically understanding your place in the surrounding constellations of taste. Success in the arts is mostly social and driven by people liking either a person or and their work, for various reasons. It means a lot of partying, schmoozing, and being out and around, which is one reason why cities have been very attractive to artists. Having a good instagram and a website helps, but I think most people in the arts cringe at people who outrightly promote themselves as a business. The most stiffly formal but acceptable way to advance yourself is either by orchestrating introductions to people via a mutual friend or asking for a studio visit. This casualness is one of the greatest freedoms in being an artist as well as one of its most difficult features.
If you are making art for the purpose of financial success, you are in the wrong field and in it for the wrong reasons. The artists I know who are "making it" are pulling in like 60k-100k a year at most. There's nothing wrong with financial success but only when it's incidental to making great art. Remember, the value of art, among many things, is in its ability to find new ways for things to think, exist, and relate to the world. Monetary value chases that which probes these deeply existential but everyday questions. If you're aiming straight for the money without much care for the play and thinking that good art demands, you may as well just go to business school and learn how to do it better in a more linear field.
What in gods creation is that abomination OP? My god that looks like shit.
Yes, you're right. Art is a meaningless scam--- you alone are right and the countless millions of people over 25,000 years of art history who believe it is meaningful are wrong.
Seriously though--- if you don't like or get a work of art, I challenge you to read what serious art people actually think about it. Seriously, it is a really good way to grow your thinking. You just have to approach it all with a willingness to entertain (or be vulnerable to) different ways of thinking. Jerry Saltz is a schmuck and has some really dumb ideas but some of his writing about contemporary art is actually really good for the uninitiated. Art is complex but also so, so much more simple than people think it is.
Lol that's a Francis Bacon and it embodies more monetary value than you will ever in your life be associated with, even by 5 degrees of separation. Not that $ value is why it's important, but it's certainly terms that this board can appreciate. Why do you think it's bad?
>died 400 years ago
My wife is an artist, decently talented not that it means much in this field. I can't imagine being an artist; I've ran businesses and selling a product people don't know they want, or convincing them that they like it sounds like a nightmare.
Bacon is a fucking tool. Get some taste you fucking fag
OP asked about making money of art and not about its intrinsic value.
Look you can go with the post modern flow or draw commisions and add patreon/stream money otherwise you are most likely doomed.
Because it does not look visually appealing to me. I don't want to pretend I find value in it by looking for things or interpreting it in a way that makes it somewhat better. It looks sloppy. the colors are ugly and there is nothing interesting about it except the grotesque face which is distracting.