Great topic, Julien! Thanks for such useful information, as always 😊

…. 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.

Art is not in a box, to create art is to be free of all the rules and boundless of restrings.

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!

Your dog is everything.

Thank you for your work Julien. Merci Perrier… for your time. Trust you are enjoying summer days there. Cheers. Since, Janet

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.

Thank you! I’ve already made my -ism and not going to forget it but maybe I will not push it

Your dog doesn't know how to appreciate good art.

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.

this text is for sure written by ai

This stuff of showing makes my tummy upset. Ugh.

Thank you for you advice! I do have a question: my first solo show in a cultural centre is coming up, but I don't have the budget for framing 30 works properly with museumglas etc. I make work on paper, it really needs to be frame for protection and it also needs a passe-partout. Do you have tips on that? There is no budget from the cc itself, I have to pay for it myself. That would mean about 3600 euro's. How do people even do that as an emerging artist?

The political correctness is unbreathable.

Meanwhile the cute dog is wondering why does my guy keep talking to himself😂

$. This was perfect.

12:09 "So don't think too much about the sales. Think about the quality of the exhibition first and the sales will follow." Sage advice and right before my scheduled exhibition, thank you!

This dog is going to know more about art than most graduates

The dog, Perrier, is cute.

I'm impressed by this content. Your advice may seem obvious, but there are things you brought up that I've overlooked on my previous exhibitions. Even the smallest of details matter. Kudos.

Seeing the puppy feels therapeutic while I think pensively about art and art exhibits lol😂

Such great advice for artists, can't thank you enough!

As a 40+ year professional artist, designer and independent curator he's wrong about not printing out exhibition graphics to physically post around not be necessary (or extra cost). First we don't know everyone in the world or in the city where your exhibit is showing. Posting printed fliers/posters in various cafe's, cultural centers, college and church boards and many other community and cultural spaces. This will catch arts patrons, other gallery owners/managers and collectors who don't know you and therefore won't know to go to your social media sites. There are many 1000s of people who don't do social media or are so busy they don't have time for that. Basically, always plan to print out 50-100 fliers/posters. Many times the gallery, museum and center hosting your work will cover the cost. With all the printing services out there, high quality printer graphics can be really affordable ($25-$60).

I was wondering what the process of a purchase looks like and what tools I need to allow a collector to buy one of my pieces. Is this a formal process? Do I need signatures showing that the piece has transfered ownership?

The non label thing is very important. That's where the galleries come in. Or there are packets or exhibition books at the door but mainly the gallerists should be able to talk about the work with no labels or no long lables just name date title and price. Its a matter of selling. And if no one in the Gallery is studying your work to understand it and interacting with clients on your behalf to market your work and sell it find a new Gallery .

Salamat po

As a passionate art collector I love labels on art works. Price, title, artist name and date of completion are basics I expect when looking at work.

I am curios as to who the artist is in the thumbnail.

Give yourself at least a year to get all this together.

Wonderful as always so much needed information. The work must be respected. That the viewer perceives this is of great importance. All the things said here support that effort.

Question: what avenues to take for finding exhibit space when you are new to a city?

I have been working on a photo series for the past three years and was planning to exhibit this summer. I live in a small rural town in Northern California and there’s no options with a place to exhibit. I don’t really know what I’ll do but this video helped me prepare for the other parts of the exhibit

Love your Dog.

Here’s a tip: Don’t spill wine on the first person who ever buys one of your paintings. Try not to get too excited and wave your arms sending the contents of your wine glass onto the arm of the nice lady who bought your diptych.

Very interesting It shows that finally the art world opens to diversity ww should be thankful for all the pioneers of the 70´and 80´s such as Basquiat and the Black artist movement who open doors when it was by far more difficult for people or color of LGTBQ to do it in the art scene. And I love Rashid Johnson's work.

Personally I find it frustrating when art has no information label next to it. What could possibly be the benefit of having to memorize the list on the wall and match the information to the art at the other end of the room? I just had a show where the gallery didn't use labels but had a list on the wall near the back of the gallery. No one at the opening knew what piece corresponded to what information on the list. Crazy to me.

Thanks you so much for sharing your knowledge!

the dog 😍😍😍

I disagree about putting labels. It really frustrates me in commercial galleries that there is no context or explanation of the work and tit's meaning. It should be accessible

I love your dog

You must say “in your opinion “

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And all the art looks the same hilarious

Hi, I'm first year of studying for a BVA at University, can I respectfully use this video as a voiceover in my artwork video. Currently I'm film making for my final installation in June? I will give credit to your KZbin channel and do see your videos providing a POV that should be voiced. I have every praise for your channel and unique aspects which stands out amongst others. From a fan of your channel. Kind regards. Kewene

Top 10 from the bottom of the list you mean because a page of a list has a top and bottom and l think you started from the bottom.

Gorgeous dog, best part of video.

At the beginning, I started painting from out of the blue. After having twenty paintings, which I never thought of selling or having collectors, as they were only for me, to relax, as to my philosophy, I had never shared them before. People I knew came to my place and said you need to sell this At first, I said," Come-on, give me a break!" But when it got to about 200, I figured, maybe. A financial officer took a photo of "Einstein painting". I had done 6"x 4" feet on canvas in New York. He came back and said they said for an unknown artist it was priced for $50.000.00 This was 25 years ago. I do not like to talk about money in the world of art, so I said nothing. And he suggested nothing either. I think he thought I didn't want to let them go! Yet if he said something I would have. As that would be the beginning of my journey in the business of art. In a gallery in San Francisco, husband and wife owners saw my portfolio and said" you are artistically and technically have arrived! Even then, I did not say to them what could we do?! I think I wanted to be invited, I wanted to be encouraged. Certainly, this came to my mind at later dates. Why did I not say anything not clear to myself?! I have never had training or school for painting. My style is metaphysical and not surrealism as some may think. In any case, even for Picasso and a few such as Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Daumier, Dali and even Ernest Hemingway, it was Gertrude Stein who helped them support them financially. For fine art, there needs to be art appreciation. I do not like to talk about money when I am present, as I would rather have an agent. To me, it is not a good style or class to talk about money directly with collectors. It would be like a prenuptial marriage. Now there is a heavy load on my shoulders to have a lot of painting stashed up, yet not collected. And I have done nothing to promote myself. Yet, I have Instagram, but that is not an appropriate site for fine artwork painters. I do not paint as much as I have been and pretty much have no motivation any longer. It is founded on the fact that people are lost, and why would I communicate through visionary images!? But I would like to paint for myself, yet that has also become a piling up of materials without sharing them? Recently, in Italy, I painted 9 works, but Italy is no good place for promoting art. Believe it or not, they think they have everything. But they don't whatsoever. A few years ago, I painted "Luciano Pavarotti" And had it on the wall. Then I decided to gift him, so I wrote to him about his villa in Italy. He quickly answered that he would be glad to receive it. I sent it by UPS. It was titled "Prima Tenore". 3" x4" feet on canvas. Yet he or nobody thanked me. Pavarotti was a good singer but had no style nor class. He prostituted the art of lyrical music by becoming very popular. They mostly want to receive yet do not want to give. On another occasion, in 1994, for World Cup football in Los Angeles. I made a poster and sent it to his music production manager, Tebour Rodes in California. They asked me to send a photo and I did, then in a few days they told me that they already had another poster in the press. They did not send the photo back. Later years I saw something similar to my design. They stole my idea and sold it or used it for themselves. I was born in Azerbaijan - Iran, and a US citizen. So if you want to hate me because you consider me a second-hand US Citizen, go ahead and think or be that way. Probably if I did not have an accent or was born in the US they would want to have me! But as they are prejudiced, thus it is clear they must think in a demonic way. So much for American opportunities. Just opportunities to invade and change regimes and spend money on fools. I think, from my classical musical interest to poetry and to paintings, I like them all. Yet the dead poet society of this world, particularly the US, will not recognize it. I feel uncomfortable even showing the photos, but I do on some occasions. The idea is to demonstrate the originals, as photos do no justice. © Written in a simple language. Metaphysician & Philosopher

2-Thanks to the US American opportunity, I don't make money as a fine art painter. Capitalists would not know anything about art. Metaphysician & Philosopher

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