Thursday, August 27, 2009
11:38 AM
What is judged to be valuable art?
If you're going to ask me that, I'd think it all depends on who's the judge.
The art dealers? How do they then see artworks and their values?
To me, a portion of these guys just buy artworks to show off their wealth. They buy works which seem pretty to them, what pleases their eyes, and then they display these works in their expensive galleries.
And then there're those guys who can appreciate art pieces like the artists and are rich at the same time. They buy the artworks so that they can enjoy them anytime they want.
Art dealers would be the people who set the price value of artworks, but that to me, cannot completely assure that the expensive pieces are valuable art, though the often sky high prices are indeed a lot of money.
To most artists, it should be the relationship they share with the artwork. It is how they can relate to the work. How it represents them or on issue they're trying to confront. It is the meaning that the artwork carries, and whether it is successful in bringing out the message.
All artworks should have a story to tell be it simple, straight forward and on the surface, or full of rich philosophies and hidden agendas. These are what make an artwork strong and powerful.
As an art student I would then judge a successful artwork as a valuable one as that would be far more important than price value.
