I’ve decided to start a new series here on the blog. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I will share things I’ve noticed. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I see little things here and there, and wonder about them. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I thought about starting a different blog to house these thoughts, but how many blogs does one guy really need?! \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Here’s he first in the series:<\/p>\n
I was in San Francisco a few months ago, and I noticed some things about art. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I was in a beautiful high-end art gallery near Ghirardelli Square. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The salesperson took quite a bit of time with me and walked me through several art pieces. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Reproductions of the art in question were selling for $60,000 and $70,000. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0This was an enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n
After visiting the gallery, I stopped to watch a street artist one block down from these same galleries. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0She was dirty, a bit rude, and looked destitute. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0She asked if she could draw a picture of me for a dollar. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I declined, but ended up giving her a dollar after she chided me for taking a picture of her.<\/p>\n
It took me a few minutes of reflection to notice that she was engaging in the same creative process as the artists whose work was on sale 300 feet away: making art for sale.<\/p>\n
This made me wonder about the value of art. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0It it only display that makes a piece of art valuable? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Is it availability? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I realized as I handed her the crisp dollar bill that I was paying with a piece of art: a portrait of George Washington, that’s available to anyone willing to provide a dollar of value in exchange. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I briefly considered the possibility that the George Washington portrait pointed to availability driving value, but I realized that the street artist in front of me was willing to provide me with an original for a very small amount of money.<\/p>\n
I realized instead that the value of art comes from context. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The salesperson in the gallery was willing to learn about my taste and sell me on the story of the pieces of art I was considering. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The person on the street was not cognizant of the source of her art’s value. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0If she was, she would be able to charge me for the application of her talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve decided to start a new series here on the blog. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I will share things I’ve noticed. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I see little things here and there, and wonder about them. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I thought about starting a different blog to house these thoughts, but how many blogs does one guy really need?! \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Here’s he first in the series: I … Continue reading Things I’ve Noticed 1: Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[60,327,341],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-art","tag-things-ive-noticed","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}