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#15, RE: Artist, Internet, Promotion
Posted by Ilia on 28-Nov-00 at 00:24 AM
In response to message #14
Hi Geoffrey! I would agree on the point that Internet for the artist is mostly an interactive catalog for the exhisting clients and unless it is taken to the next step it would remain as another copy of the artist's portfolio. Ironically not the best one - high resolution professional photographs in leather folder look way more presentable.

Now about the "next step". We live in the overpopulated world overpopulated and busy, prices are not going down and since stock market does well dont expect them to plunge in the future.
Things like Impressionists and Salon, or Russian "Peredvizniki", or Cafe "Parnas" do not seem to happen anymore. Artist is no longer able to pop out the studio and bingo! cafe filled with creative colleagues, Castelly does not scout the studios in search for the new talent anymore. And with the invent of modern art - there are also way too many artists and styles.

So what did we, artists, get in exchange for all of those gooddies of the past - cheap computers and the Internet.
Not too much, but that is all we got so lets use it.

Geoffrey, any advise?