tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30215009.post2016565911165737978..comments2023-08-02T07:09:55.097-05:00Comments on Miriam Grace Climenhaga: Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01335465248417587444noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30215009.post-20400875519618065912007-07-21T19:15:00.000-05:002007-07-21T19:15:00.000-05:00Thankyou for those fantastic quotes. I have to tra...Thankyou for those fantastic quotes. I have to track down that book. I found EVERYTHING you had to say on the subject interesting and completely relatable (is that a real word?)<BR/>We (artists0 all 'know' that stuff, but seeing it written is so comforting. Great...so we're not egoist pigs. Anyway, the whole selling thing is an important issue; but only in this regard- the value of the work.<BR/>Someone I know sells his paintings for figures that range from 50- 100 thousand dollars. Now that SEEMS a lot. BUT, he’s almost 80 years old and he didn’t start to make any real money until his middle age. Add to this the fact that he puts at least 10 hours a day (more as the exhibition dates loom), seven days a week. His dealer will get 50%, the tax man 30-40% on what’s left. All of this and more, and let’s not forget surviving the great cull that occurs in an artist’s middle years are factored into the price. Plus there’s a ‘finite’ amount of paintings that he is going to be making...he’s old; he’s mortal; the investors are rubbing their hands.<BR/>I don’t know about you Miriam (did I tell you my middle name is Miriam?) But spend weeks and sometimes months if the work is very large making a work, and if I need 5,000.00 for it, that’s bloody cheap, because I can earn better money as a checkout chick in Woolworths.<BR/>Perhaps we should a price justification comment with our work citing, hours, material costs, wages, academic qualifications, years spent honing out craft, status...you know-all that shite.<BR/>Honestly, saleability doesn’t matter...it’s just a bonus.L.M.Noonanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881964969727529916noreply@blogger.com