Whether I agree or disagree with any selections that have been made for this ‘Top 10 List’ is truly, and utterly irrelevant. This video is simply a report on the way things currently sit in the global art market. Nothing more. Market forces have produced these results. These artists come and go out of these lists, just as the Top IMDB actors lists change, just as Spotify’s most popular artists change. It’s like watching the stock market. Devoid and detached from whatever any one persons opinion may be. So consume this content as such. It’s pretty undeniable that colour, race, gender and sexuality help fuel the selection for marketable artists globally. That’s just politics - which too changes with the seasons. As I say, CAI are simply echoing what is at this moment in time. What perhaps is interesting about content like this, is that we, as fellow lovers of making/creating/experiencing art are informed with the knowledge of what the art market forces are up to at the moment. At the moment, it’s hot for ethnically diverse and female artists. Take that information for what it is - information. This information has nothing whatsoever to do with your personal artistic practice, routines and instincts. Carry on on your journey. Let the market do whatever it’s doing. At the end of it all, it truly is irrelevant. Getting frustrated at lists like this is like getting mad at the tide because it went out. Take the information and say ‘yup, the art market is still fuelled by factors separate from the art itself.’ It always has been. It always will be. To the artists pursuing truth through their work - get off your phone (as I’m about to!) pick up your brush - and get to work. You owe it to yourself, especially after consuming all these stat driven results from a market that doesn’t give damn about you, or your work. Make money at your day job. Buy art supplies. Make art. Repeat. That’s all it will ever be about.
Gerhard Richter a man who understands the use of space and color in transitional abstract concepts. Very well balanced on the paintings you have shown here.
Hello, Is it okay to talk about a contemporary artist on a RU-vid channel? Of course, by giving his name and necessary information about him. Is it legally okay? ❤
as a performance artist, i feel we get to much of a bad reputation for being the "weird artsy lot" but in most cases were just going against the grain and making a statement in our own unique way me personally: my performances are about showing that tedious boredom is important societally, i perform by just sitting in a lawn chair reading a book, thats all, and the message im trying to get across is that society relies to heavily on gimmicks and hooks to draw attention, bright lights loud noises and fancy graphics are all we need to be interested, whereas all i do is be myself, tedious and boring, which is the reality we try to avoid, most of our lives are dull and uneventful which is why we admire fancy things, its an anti societal statement about technological development slowly eroding away what makes us individual
Most modern art substitutes weird for quality, narrow isms for scope, and trendy for depth. It also refuses to change or even talk about progressive ideas in art like those that follow Too many treat art as a marketing scheme. Modern art has become a trendy clique and the art now is mostly over promoted footnotes to greater art that was done 100 years ago. But art is too important to be reduced to a trendy clique. Post-ism, is art for a new century, not a continuation of last century trends. 1 Mass Market Paintings like Prints. When any art form is mass marketed it enters a golden age. This has happened with books, records, and film. Let's add paintings. Most art is in storage in museum basements. Mass Marketing allows art to tour in copies and allows artists to make royalties on copies. Why do you think the world gets so excited about a new great book, record, or film; but no one cares about a new great painting? All are mass produced except the painting. 2. End a Century of Isms. Dump the genres and formulas and let all kinds of art be a part of the art world. 3. Shift Emphasis From Trendy to Quality. Shift emphasis from the latest trendy art, to quality art in any style. Just because art is weird does not mean it is great art. 4. Free the Art From Museums and Galleries. Get the art out of the ivory elitist museum and gallery towers and back into the world. Have city art centers open to all artists. Make art that is relevant and communicates with people. Start with the first generation of artists online. 5. Postism is Part of a Bigger Revolution. Postism is part of the bigger art and media revolution out of Dallas, that includes art, music, lit, film, media, and a lot more. 6. Postism online: Online artists are the new wave of art. We had all the isms of last century. Now we have a free for all, of all kinds of artists, that are not sanctioned by any museum or gallery, displaying their work. Out of that comes the next wave and revolution of artists. Last century the goal was to fit the ism. This century the goal is to do great art - no ism, no boundaries. Fractionalized art then, synchronized art now. Even calling something modern art is a type of ism that separates that art from the art of the past. The 20th century was a century of experimentation in art. Now in the 21st we can choose from all those styles and / or start one of our own. Then too if someone devises a way to charge and collect a penny per view on a webpage, that would allow any great artist to get money for their art and have a career without any middlemen. Duchamp broke ground 100 years ago - but now his clones are just shoveling dirt. Weird art is easy, you put a strip of raw bacon across an expensive violin, but it's not good art. Join the art revolution and pull the art world out of last century. Musea since 1992.
What a hodgepodge motley assortment of veritable fine arts photographers and ersatz artists! Many of your "top 20" are rank amateurs who had a moment, and while you have included some of the greats like Diane Arbus and (in passing) Alfred Steiglitz, you omitted some legendary and seminal artists like W. Eugene Smith (Minamata images!), Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucas Samaras (who just died this year), Jock Sturges, and, of course, the internationally renowned Sebastão Salgado. THIS IS BECAUSE YOU INVESTED DECISIONS IN A COMPUTER PROGRAM. Also, your use of AI narrator is bizarre and abusive to proper pronunciation, e.g. Henri Cartier-Bresson and László Moholy-Nagy's names were butchered, perpetuating confusion to a new generation .
Very unfair All I see nothing Or nothing is the art Simply many artists lost in oblivion while others reached to the pinnacle by drawing squares and scribbles
Thank you sooo much for not using those super cheesy stock video anymore! Great video. Straight up and to the point whether we like it or not it’s how things work. ❤
Thank you so much for this information. I wish I had seen it sooner. After watching this I feel more comfortable about trying to get my work seen and actually creating a resume when I have no experience.
Thank you so much for your advice Julien. But what if your artwork is painted on paper and it has white space around it that is part of the work? (The image is 21 x 21, and the paper 25 cx25, and the edges takes a part in the piece) Which size should you calculate then? The size of the paper (25 x 25 cm, partly painted), or just the painted image itself?
When literally everyone is a derivative of Gerhard Richter then what is the point anymore? This is all a dead end imo (with a few exceptions). I DEFINITELY agree with the hand-made aspect being crucial (with the obvious intentional exception of Warhol). I want to smell it, and enjoy is as a physical artifact; it's not just about the image, its the whole experience that matters.
@@contemporaryartissue I am doing very well, Julien. I've already scheduled three (!) personal shows over the next few months. Even though they will be in modest locations, it's better than nothing. Your valuable advice will definitely help me make fewer mistakes. Thanks again, and I'm always looking forward to your high-quality content.
…. And… I clearly remember the moment in my life where it did seem that looking at the little labels next to the artwork were drawing me in so much. I decided to stop reading them first off… noticing kinda how funny it was to watch others reading the labels so much. They rarely are of appropriate quality and design to flatter each work. Isn’t there a painting in history illustrating this phenomenon… ? We get spoon fed so much information already. … I am grateful to get this insight here.
Hmm I don't do painting (I do sculptures and digital media) but I look at a lot of paintings growing up because my dad/that old man paints oil and stuff. But I think Tala's and Camilla's styles are somewhat similar from what's shown. Tala is a bit heavy. I find it more poignant. I don't know why Camilla ranks higher...guess I'm too intense. I either like it intellectually transcend or emotionally charged. Yeah, make me feel something or make me think.
An Artist is able to Create Art, just because she or he is an artist. So despite the quality of what you use or the amount of money spent to buy the tools, still it is art, valuable to the artist. If Picasso painted one pf his creations on a house wall with simple paint, wouldn't it be art and worth today?! 😊 So continue to create!
Hi Janet, the pleasure is all mine. I trust you are enjoying summer as well-for now, here in Belgium, we are having the most rain Spring since the 1960s, so things can only get better! Cheers, Julien
Awesome advice! I have my first solo show in July at Pleiades Gallery, in Chelsea NYC, and I intend to follow all of your information here. Thanks for posting.
I feel like your channel might single-handedly be saving my art career before I even get started. Thank you for this content. I studied physics at MIT, not art, and I know next to nothing. Your channel and website have been so incredibly as resources for recommended reading, strategic steps in experimentation and learning, and explaining the art world to a socially inexperienced beginner. I am so excited to begin delving into this alternate side of my passion.
