🎨10 stereotypes about Contemporary Art💡

Let’s be honest, if you’re looking for a work by Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons, you’ll probably have to break the bank.

However, it’s important to note that “contemporary” art also encompasses emerging artists, which means more accessible prices!

There are so many talented artists, few or not yet known, who offer their works starting from a few hundred euros for editions. We offer them too!

Believing that contemporary art is reserved for snobs is an illusion. Certainly, “snobbish” people are interested in art, and certainly art can be perceived as primarily accessible to a social and intellectual elite. However, art is much more than that!

By its very essence, it is universal and indefinable, touching all social classes, crossing epochs and cultures.

There’s something for everyone and for every taste. If you still hear that art is reserved for snobs, invite these sceptics to explore galleries and museums. That will make one less snobby visitor!

This question instantly takes us back to our old philosophy classes. If a work doesn’t seem beautiful to us, it’s simply because it doesn’t touch us, and we’re not receptive to it.

But that’s not a big deal! Beauty is, by its very essence, relative and subjective.

If a work doesn’t appeal to us, we just need to move on and explore what other artists have to offer. In fact, it’s even gratifying to see that not everyone appreciates the same things, because it saves us from relentlessly fighting to acquire them.

Diversity is a beautiful thing!

Many wrongly believe that you need a certain expertise to understand contemporary art.

However, unlike learning a language which requires a thorough study to master its subtleties, the language of art appeals, more than any other domain, to emotion.

Your eyes, your emotions, your thoughts, and your memory are all elements that will be stimulated by a work of art.

It will touch you even more as it doesn’t deliver a clear and official message, allowing your sensitivity to appropriate the work. In short, art is accessible to all, regardless of the level of prior knowledge.

Mais que signifie exactement “ce qui marche” ?

Si l’on parle du marché de l’art, ce n’est pas tout à fait vrai.

De nombreuses œuvres qualifiées de “provocantes” ne trouveront pas preneurs, car considérées comme trop choquantes ou excessives.

En revanche, d’un point de vue de l’histoire de l’art, ce n’est pas totalement faux. Ce qui pouvait être perçu comme de la provocation à une certaine époque, comme les œuvres de Caravage ou de Manet, nous paraît aujourd’hui tout à fait acceptable.

Bousculer et repousser les limites fait aussi partie du rôle des artistes.

It’s undeniable that money plays a predominant role in our society.

The price of a work is often determined by factors that may seem superficial, such as the network and influence of the artist and his gallery owner, and it doesn’t necessarily reflect the intrinsic quality of the work.

However, don’t limit yourself to the few hundred artists who make the headlines and are exhibited in major international fairs.

It’s important to keep in mind that most artists fail to make a living from their art, and that many gallery owners also struggle to make ends meet. This shows that it’s primarily the love of art that drives them.

We regret having to deconstruct the myth of the tormented and cursed artist.

Just because an artist has a particular sensitivity and strives to perceive the world from a different angle doesn’t mean they’re necessarily antisocial, withdrawn, or even mentally ill.

They’re individuals like everyone else, with their flaws and peculiarities, but just as real and human.