Ulrich de Balbian I'm not sure what Nina means by the 'price tags are disgusting'? If attaching a visible price to a work or art, or prints, are meant, or if the prices themselves appear to be too high or too low? We can't escape the fact that in today's world everything comes with a price tag, including 'art objects'. And, few artists, if any, have control over the price of their work. Just have a look at the criteria employed to evaluate the price of a work of art, for example at Artprice.com. I wonder how many
October 25, 2011 at 8:35 am
Ulrich de Balbian I wonder ho many are aware that the top 500 contemporary artists are identified according to their sales during the last financial year. And, that roughly 400 of them are Chinese, as the art market has shifted from Europe and the US to China and Asia.
October 25, 2011 at 8:37 am
Ulrich de Balbian The artist has little control over the price tag place attached to his work. No wonder that graduates and young artists are given assistance by handbooks and sites such as http://www.artright.co.za. They provide free resource of business, legal and educational tools, documents, information for the visual arts community.