On: The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

[mritchie712]

yeah, there someone still needs to sell the art. I'd imagine it's the artist until you're a massive success.

[whiddershins → mritchie712]

No amount of success insulates you from tons of annoying and tasks and interactions.

The only way to insulate yourself from that would be to be completely unsuccessful.

But then you would have to be either extremely poor, which is exhausting, or make/have money another way, which is likely to be a huge distraction.

There is really no solving for this.

[focus2020 → whiddershins]

DonKnuth comes to mind.

[xapata → mritchie712]

No, generally that's the gallerist's job. They take 50% of the revenue.

[hanche → xapata]

But first the artist has to get a gallery to show his work.

[mritchie712 → hanche]

exactly, I'd imagine artists spend a good bit of their time schlepping around convincing galleries to display their work.

[xapata → mritchie712]

There's a big difference between "massive success" and having a gallery show. Once you have a decent relationship with a gallery, if you don't care so much about money you can just let the gallery handle that side of things.

A friend of mine has been a professional painter for the last 50-ish years. He makes a couple trips a year to the gallery to deliver paintings. The gallerist tries to take that chance to suggest a few motifs that seem to sell better, but doesn't get too pushy.