artlover Loc: NM

You cannot please all the people all the time. Lincoln found that
having "failed" 8 times, he was a success.

Women like things men don't. Men like things women don't.

Some have to have ALL the equipment. Others only get what
is needed. I saw a "protographer" at the museum taking
fantastic photos of very expensive art. The setup time was
long and tedious. The professionals in any endeavor are blessed
and just don't work a 40 hr week.

My father-in-law (about to be 100) was a fantastic person of the earth. He took photos with a handheld camera I would not
consider. He took great photos of national park areas. He knew
the best places on earth as he traveled all over the world in
search of oil and natural gas in the 1940-85 era. His favorate
country was INDONESIA (where my wife was born).

In the USN I was fortunate to go to CAMBODIA, in l961. I went
to Ankor Wat. Wish I had my present camera for that. Took
8MM and had a lab transfer them years ago to a CD. Lost the
disk and now have no works from the 8th wonder of the world.



Being a perfect photographer is a gift. We all have gifts of some
kind and when we find them, enjoy and understand someone
along the way may not like it. They may be jealous.

Do the best you can with what you got.

Picasso was the only live painter, artist, to ever make a living.

Even the great ones come upon tough times.

charlessmall18

I think Winslow Homer and N. C. Wyeth, for two, did OK selling paintings when they were alive. And, unlike Picasso, they were both good artists.

BBNC

In the fields of artistic endeavor, wine making, and fine cigars, personal opinion weighs heavily in what is considered "good," and what is considered "bad." Once the technical requirements of the product are met (composition in art, lack of harshness in wine, and construction in cigars), all the rest is personal opinion.

Too many people, the "critics", pass off their opinion as some sort of mystical insight into the subject. Worse than that, other folks take the pronouncements of the critics as gospel, basing their opinion on what the critics said.

Art is good if I like it. Wine is good if I like it, and a cigar is good if I like it. I don't need some "aficionado/critic telling me what is "good," and what is not!

naturalite Loc: Up state NY

Well said!

artlover Loc: NM

Thank you for your opinion. Maybe you could afford an
original Homer or Wyeth, but could you afford a Picasso
when he was alive? He had his different periods.

I saw Picasso paintings I did not understand, but appreciated
his talent. He did not just do OK. He was the wealthiest painter
ever to live. If he signed his work, it was for sale.

artlover Loc: NM

Please go to Google and search Picasso and his creative works
that influenced what was done in the 20th century.

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

I know a painter who's probably worth between five and ten million dollars, easy. He's been painting most of his adult life. Of course, he primarily does walls and ceilings.. :) I think that's a pretty broad statement. From what I understand, Andy Warhol also did pretty well at the bank...