Art Marketing Secrets

Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the icons of the renaissance. Together with Michelangelo and several other great artists and artisans of the period Da Vinci left a legacy of art, thought, science, and culture which has profoundly affected all ages since.

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I spent so much of my life working on the “If You Build It They Will Come” principle, but more recently my experience has been more like, “You better find out what people want before you build it or they probably won’t come!”. I think it has a lot to do with meeting people where they are at.

We just received a a Kreativ Blogger award from artist and art licensing superstar Tara Reed. Kreativ Blogger originated in May 2008 in a post by Huldas Verden. The Kreativ Blogger award comes with requirements! Learn more…

This artwork by Alexander Calder caught my attention. Although not one of his large-scale public works it is a wonder to me. The shapes and the nature of the curves speak of the golden mean and the wonderful symmetry normally seen only in nature.

What we learned from the world’s wealthiest artists: If you dream of commercial success, you have to think like a business person and learn how to speak that language and make decisions in a way that a business does. Interested? Read on..

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Pablo Picasso was without question one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Together with Georges Braque, he also created Cubism. But what of the real person behind the man?

This weeks featured artist, Myra Rodriguez, is a photographer. But aside from her technical skill in working with a camera, she has the gift of artistic vision – in her case the ability to capture a story in each image – as if each was embedded with gigabytes of information just waiting to be told.

If you are an artist and you want to be commercially successful, you have to think like a business. Businesses don’t make money by asking customers or partners to feel sorry for them. They get successful by having a vision, a clear achievable plan, investing in it and executing it.

In my dream, the artist explained that she had been in discussions with a major gallery to have her work represented by them and that the whole process had been going really really well. Until…. she referred to herself as an EMERGING artist. What does it mean?