Comments on: Would we recognize Jasper Johns at a sidewalk art sale? http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale-2.html Art Marketing Secrets To Turn Your Artist Website into a 21st Century Art Marketing Machine Thu, 17 May 2012 13:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Art Marketing: Our Top 5 Articles Of All Time | Art Marketing Secrets http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-1053 Art Marketing: Our Top 5 Articles Of All Time | Art Marketing Secrets Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:26:12 +0000 http://70.32.73.65/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale.html#comment-1053 [...] 100% Would we recognize Jasper Johns at a sidewalk art sale? [...] [...] 100% Would we recognize Jasper Johns at a sidewalk art sale? [...]

]]> By: pligg.com http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-730 pligg.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:19:30 +0000 http://70.32.73.65/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale.html#comment-730 <strong>Understand the power of context in marketing your art!...</strong> If an iconic artist like Jasper Johns was selling art on a sidewalk would we recognize him? Would we see the mastery in his work?... Understand the power of context in marketing your art!…

If an iconic artist like Jasper Johns was selling art on a sidewalk would we recognize him? Would we see the mastery in his work?…

]]> By: J. DesForges http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-511 J. DesForges Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:26 +0000 http://70.32.73.65/2009/07/would-we-recognize-jasper-johns-at-a-sidewalk-art-sale.html#comment-511 This is a clever—but not great—story and social experiment. However, it is hardly scientific or fair: the outcome was pre-determined by the logistics of the set-up. People could not stop or they would be late for work. Period. A fairer observance of (social) tendencies toward art would have been to put Mr Bell in a park or other public space where peoples' minds are not set on rushing to their life-sustaining destination in a crowded subway first thing in the morning. I see where you want to go with this, but "taking a moment" to smell the roses is not an appropriate lesson with this particular experiment. The lesson is rather this: No matter what you do in the subway, don't expect people to risk being fired or miss a potential meeting at work to stop and watch or listen. Gee, thanks, now we know! By the way, your initial question regarding context is interesting and constantly being challenged by artists themselves. Mastery in contemporary art, however, is surely different than mastery of a classical instrument. My guess is if you miss sheer unadulterated mastery on the street, you will surely miss it in a museum or gallery—although being TOLD something is great due to context or even popularity and regurgitating that "knowledge" is done constantly in the art world by dealers and patrons alike. I think your point is that we should all slow the hell down. Cheers to that. This is a clever—but not great—story and social experiment. However, it is hardly scientific or fair: the outcome was pre-determined by the logistics of the set-up. People could not stop or they would be late for work. Period. A fairer observance of (social) tendencies toward art would have been to put Mr Bell in a park or other public space where peoples' minds are not set on rushing to their life-sustaining destination in a crowded subway first thing in the morning.

I see where you want to go with this, but "taking a moment" to smell the roses is not an appropriate lesson with this particular experiment. The lesson is rather this: No matter what you do in the subway, don't expect people to risk being fired or miss a potential meeting at work to stop and watch or listen. Gee, thanks, now we know!

By the way, your initial question regarding context is interesting and constantly being challenged by artists themselves. Mastery in contemporary art, however, is surely different than mastery of a classical instrument. My guess is if you miss sheer unadulterated mastery on the street, you will surely miss it in a museum or gallery—although being TOLD something is great due to context or even popularity and regurgitating that "knowledge" is done constantly in the art world by dealers and patrons alike. I think your point is that we should all slow the hell down. Cheers to that.

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