tues

by lutcher
john the babtist

well i was sitting around yesterday and this sales man calls from art exchange dot com,

These people are relentless!, i have been talking to them for over 7 years i must be on there "to call list", go check out ther site, they are an operation that sells or markets art work like Art&Buisness,mag, they depend on the internet for marketing and what not but to join and let them market you along with ???? amount of artists, you pay almost 500 dallars,
it was fun toying with this young guy trying to get him to admit he is full of crap!, what the fuck would i want to do with you fucks!, so it put him on the defencive, he believes in his company, plus he is a sales man, he kept throwing me the stats about their earnings and marketing, and about how they are the greatest art offialio'nos out there, i had to ask the guy what publication do you guys consider as a good art resourse, he menting art and buisness news, i said are you fucking crasy or something,
the only way i could get the guy to admint there was somehting wrong was asking him "why would i want to do this based on the way i operate," , he keept apealing to ambitions and the majic art words "exposeure and contacts" whoooaao,
i keep breaking him down for examples, and said well i can do better and its for free, , it was fun toying with the guy, i went on to tell him, the his site is made fun of and so is "art&busness news" and the worst sux ass gernra art merchants out there, now one in the folk or contempory world would find anything desireable about this, the guy was miffed why?
i had to use the metaphore of the the hamburger, you can get a really good one from you local privately owned sandwhich shop or BBQ joint, larger better more work was put into it, or you can go eat at Mc Donolds, which one do you think is going to taste better,?
he said the local,
i said well your trying to perswade me based on how many people eat Mcdonolds as weight alone, and how much the burgers have made money?
the art that his organisation has is well less than interesting, but people buy it probly more than or more interesting art,
i told him the problem is i am into art to much and he needs to find some artist who is and idiot and thinks like one, he can make borring art for borring people, of course the guy got sorta buturbed by this,
the conversation when on for an hour or so, he was real determined not to give up and would switch geers back to seeling his advertising plans, like a low payed creditcard sales man,
i told the guy
hey when you get off work today and you drive by that hastings or bookstop or some book place go over to the magazine rack and look at an art furom or something, and wonder "what the fuck is this shit?" and then when you done with that you can pull up the southwest art mag, ,
but he did mentioned art and antiques , some one gave me a stack of those onces , i didn't mind them,.
I rember one time when i was heading out to Floyd Va , i stopped in Columbus Mis, i had a relative there and got to explore the town i ran across this old victoian style artist who lived on the square of the town , strong and arched eye bitch with alot of opinions and advise on how to be and artist, , very freindly, and inviting, but her view of art was your sole goal as an artist is to be picked up in to mass prints, and trying to figure out what the public wanted, she had a coachy like style, i think she said she was a retired school teacher, he work was this retro victorian style like old proches and ladys sittting in ther parlors type of stuff,
I told her i painted chickens, , which to her was admiting i suck, and she went all hog wild giving me art advise, which was fun in itself, , at the end when she gave me this speell i asked her about , what about this other world, like the contempory showing space right next to your shop, a theater/gallery comunity deal
"ahhh ,!" she said
"well since your so great why havn't you got a show over there?"
what is that place what do they do over there?
she fell short on opinions about it,
and i sorta got the imprssion, she tryed to do something , but in small towns like this, they operate like clubhouses, and her work wouldn't fit in, nor her character,.
Kinda like the phonesalesman,
who comes from these other backgrounds sorta pround and acomplished people, but don't know shit about art, but have all the confidence in the world on how to sell it.
odd mix,
and funny to listen to.

Posted by chickengeorge at August 10, 2005 9:20 AM