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Tips for artists who want to sell?

  • 27-08-2010 2:51pm
    #1
    sNarah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,570 ✭✭✭


    I came across this image on piccsy.com, change the word "paintings" to photographs and it still stands as valid!

    125662.jpg

    At first I was going to throw it in the Off topic thread but then I thought, no no, let's give it a proper thread with a question attached!

    Seeing as PP2010 is on this weekend (I'll be there, buy my prints, pimp pimp), it is always interesting to see which pictures sell and which ones don't. I'm displaying 1 landscape and a good few abstracts so curious as to which will perform better.

    As a general question - if you have sold prints before or bought them yourself, what sells best?

    If I wanted to become rich by taking photographs (Don't worry, I don't want to, you all know that) what subject will be a route into shiny pennies and loads of them?

    Discuss!


Comments

  • #2
    pullandbang
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭pullandbang


    So pictures of dead birds don't sell?
    Damn!
    I've 50 prints of this done for Peoples Photography and was hoping to sell them :p

    BE902F7BEB0344DBA015B66A07CD194A-500.jpg


  • #3
    kjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    From the last few years at peoples photography, I've mostly sold landscapes. Next popular are shots that make the viewer question how the shot was put together, gets the brain clicking...

    Eg

    ma_sluice_full_sm-550x366.jpg

    lots_of_layers.jpg


  • #4
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Cows and Hens gather dust? Well from my own experience is: coming in at almost 1,450 pics sold in 8months is
    7C0CDFE2AA6A48BF9B0AE73C2F5553CA-500.jpg

    And a hen weighing in with about 300 pics sold in 6 months is...
    3574154653_aa81f6de86.jpg

    Painting and photography are very different beasts. I wouldn't agree with anything on the list for photography.

    What sells? Green pictures and red pictures.

    What doesn't? Swans, flowers and pics where a stranger's face is dominant.
    There are of course exceptions to the rules but it is for me a pretty good rule of thumb.


  • #5
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    sNarah wrote: »
    I came across this image on piccsy.com, change the word "paintings" to photographs and it still stands as valid!

    125662.jpg

    just to provide a source for this. It's a copy of an artwork by US artist John Baldessari. He had a big show in London last year. His main point in this artwork and other similar ones is that the 'rules' that artists are told are wrong.

    opera427_museo_madre.jpg

    10.jpg

    and one of my favourites, this one below that he got from a photography book about what you should and shouldn't do
    wrong-baldessari.jpg

    http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A304&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldessari


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