Last Thursday at college we were shown a video of an artist called jack vettriano, who was a millionaire because of the amount of paintings he had sold but the weird think about him is that he is not considers as a well established artist because none of his work is displayed in any art exhibitions.
Why is this?
I think the reason that vettriano and other artists are not established because they sell there own art and do not hold any pieces back from the public, where as artist who are moving there work through art exhibitions and art dealers they do not release all of there paintings to the public so that there work looks more rare and also so the other pieces of art by them increase in value. I think art critics and dealers are just high end business men who want to make big money.
Where as I think vettriano and other artists like him just paint likable situations and scenarios that people can relate to and dream about themselves being the person in the romantic scene.
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