Noting Gained Noting Earned (detail)
Copyright © 2020 Elisabeth Kelvin
Why buy art?
Art gives when you ask it to give. To buy an original work of art has numerous desirable resonances. Though it may be historically referential and saturated with shared distinctions, art is new and unique. When buying a work of art, we engage in questioning the artistic value of authenticity.
The artist is paid when a work is sold. Maybe not much and seldom enough, but at least she is valued at the standard value measurement: money.
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if not paid for.”
(Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own)
Through buying art the artist can then make more art.
“The thing that always worried me about art for art’s sake, right from the beginning, was making these precious objects for special people… I still haven’t found the answer. I’ve just had to live with it.”
(Robert Klippel: interviewed by Rosemary Madigan)
Imagine the thrill! You have a freshly purchased artwork that provides a series of new experiences created out of one visual stimulus. Does the art hold your interest? Is it a perceptive composition? Does it hold elements of play and curiosity within its realm? Could it challenge and enthuse? Will it reveal a time/space relationship or create new thought pathways? Art is not just bought and consumed. It is, as they say, a game-changer. Philosopher Daniel Dennett uses a term intuition pump. Owning art is living amongst art and the capacity to slough off rusty, dusty thoughts and grow new ones is in the human experience defined by excitement. The bought art is allowed time to be looked at and into.
“When it is authentic art, you go into it, unlike kitsch, which goes into you.”
(Walter Benjamin, Illuminations)
Visit a gallery and encounter the art. So much to see and never enough time! Closing hours, crowded rooms, and other art and non-art related activities can dampen the experience of developing a relationship with an artwork in a museum. At home, walk past, sit down or have sex in front of, clean around, and share with friends your art. Live with a work of art, unblocked. Art thrives in an intimate environment. It withers when neglected. What better way encourages today’s aesthetic experience to flourish than to buy my painting for yourself or for someone you love? To acquire an artwork is to value current events expressionism. Artists reflect the time, the zeitgeist.
“Art means New Art.”
(Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea)
What if the art turns out to be inferior or loses its ability to challenge and interest? Buy another! When placed in proximity artworks will chat with one another. Again, the nearness of each to the other will provide more than double the aesthetic experience. Placed alone, alternating in the space, the implied visual discussion will continue.
Owning art celebrates the artist’s skills and abilities. Not only does she have knowledge, experience, patience, courage, intelligence, time management, integrity, inquisitiveness, perceptive analysis of situations, cooperation, but also spatial perception, environmental sensitivity, fine motor skills, social awareness, and an ability to make something, out of nothing. Physicists present a strong case to the world that nothing is really something and artists manifest this concept. Ask an artist whence their idea for a work comes. You can contribute to the artist expanding her skills through your purchase of this something.
Supporting a friend, love, or acquaintance wants to acquire an artwork by a living artist, also supports the artist. The dream is to see my art bought, displayed, viewed, and discussed. Rinse and repeat.
Art can give the best thing to everyone.
Art can change our frame of mind.
Art. Make it by buying it.
About the artist
Abstraction in Elisabeth’s art is informed by her professional experience of music performance and composition. Personal – and historical – ideas regarding the differences and shared distinctions of aural and visual media are addressed, explored, and developed in each new work.
Please contact Elisabeth for the acquisition and commission of works.
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Art of the Human Form. Breathtaking figurative art:
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© 2021 Elisabeth Kelvin
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