The 2020 BLM-driven art portraiture market just nose dived…trends have shifted again in the art world away from black artists

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

We need the data to compare it with other art portraiture during that time 2020-2021 and present..

Some uncomfortable conversations

You know there will be a difference, but I fear the gap is gonna shock some folks...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

All different artists but the paintings look like the same style. Not my thing.

Its that deconstructed nonsense

but hey, some fads are gonna cater to some people.

I just wish people had listened when I was saying some of this stuff wasn’t gonna age well. It was too focused on portraying twists on just generic black art instead of pushing affirmatively in a new direction that would allow it to weather more challenging climates and diverse customer bases.

 

[King_Kamala61]

What do you mean? What is dictating that style? Is it specific genre or something

It's what some white men or women in blue chip galleries tell their high value clients i.e. multi-millionaires who is hot and etc.

I've been told by countless artists that are hot in the game my work is top notch, it's just that I gotta catch the eyes of blue chip galleries.

Mind you when you do get caught by a blue chip gallery, the dealer tells you what sells and doesn't and they force you work it to that visual aesthetic. That's why all of these artists work never matures in periods anymore. You gotta be marketable.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It's what some white men or women in blue chip galleries tell their high value clients i.e. multi-millionaires who is hot and etc.

I've been told by countless artists that are hot in the game my work is top notch, it's just that I gotta catch the eyes of blue chip galleries.

Mind you when you do get caught by a blue chip gallery, the dealer tells you what sells and doesn't and they force you work it to that visual aesthetic. That's why all of these artists work never matures in periods anymore. You gotta be marketable.

The real problem is that black consumers of art are so desperate to be seen as legitimate and viable as mainstream artists that they’re defensive about any criticism or review that shows their work to be average or subpar.

Even the comment section of the IG post has people claiming they dont really care and that “capitalism is evil” or something. And it’s like…do you want the masses to like your work or are yo happy catering to a smaller niche with less resources to reward you?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

They turned my local museum into a Friday night club and not a serious venue for the reverent and solemn appreciation for art :Francis:








They in there tho

 

[Still Benefited]

Its that deconstructed nonsense

but hey, some fads are gonna cater to some people.

I just wish people had listened when I was saying some of this stuff wasn’t gonna age well. It was too focused on portraying twists on just generic black art instead of pushing affirmatively in a new direction that would allow it to weather more challenging climates and diverse customer bases.

Sorry,but you dont strike me as "art guy". Didnt take rocket science to tell us those paintings wouldnt age well. They look basic and not artistic at all. I dont believe that was a value someone was ever willing to pay. Someone peobably just tried to start a bidding war,and now they are willing to settle. Gonna need to come down some more on those prices

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[King_Kamala61]

The real problem is that black consumers of art are so desperate to be seen as legitimate and viable as mainstream artists that they’re defensive about any criticism or review that shows their work to be average or subpar.

Even the comment section of the IG post has people claiming they dont really care and that “capitalism is evil” or something. And it’s like…do you want the masses to like your work or are yo happy catering to a smaller niche with less resources to reward you?

Naw...art is subjective as fukk and Black people have vastly different experiences than white people and the focus of blackness scares white collectors. Everyday you see a black face staring back at you. Every fukking day that you placed on the wall in your home.

The psychological affect of art can be damning, and thus the main black artists that sale have soft images of blackness or avoid images of blackness and keep it to being done by a black hand.

No disrespect but you don't know shyt about art history, art or the art business. You are waaaaay over your head.

 

[VegetasHairline]

This Indian imbecile actually thinks people are gonna read his walls of text.

 

[King_Kamala61]

Sorry,but you dont strike me as "art guy". Didnt take rocket science to tell us those paintings wouldnt age well. They look basic and not artistic at all. I dont believe that was a value someone was ever willing to pay. Someone peobably just tried to start a bidding war,and now they are willing to settle. Gonna need to come down some more on those prices

Yes this is true, those were soft imagery of blackness. However, it was whites looking for a Basquiat in the rough, so they can come up .cause the were being flipped too fast.

 

[King_Kamala61]

This Indian imbecile actually thinks people are gonna read his walls of text.

I used ChatGPT to paraphrase summary

 

[King_Kamala61]

Its that deconstructed nonsense

but hey, some fads are gonna cater to some people.

I just wish people had listened when I was saying some of this stuff wasn’t gonna age well. It was too focused on portraying twists on just generic black art instead of pushing affirmatively in a new direction that would allow it to weather more challenging climates and diverse customer bases.

No you dumbass art illiterate, the dealers dictate what sells and what is pushed.

You ain't in the art world

 

[VegetasHairline]

Naw...art is subjective as fukk and Black people have vastly different experiences than white people and the focus of blackness scares white collectors. Everyday you see a black face staring back at you. Every fukking day that you placed on the wall in your home.

The psychological affect of art can be damning, and thus the main black artists that sale have soft images of blackness or avoid images of blackness and keep it to being done by a black hand.

No disrespect but you don't know shyt about art history, art or the art business. You are waaaaay over your head.

That bozo is really trying to tell an actual artist how the art world works.

 

[King_Kamala61]

That bozo is really trying to tell an actual artist how the art world works.

You can't make this up.

At one point I had the hottest black female artist in the NOLA and she was gonna slide through to see my studio but I was on a business trip.

Plus I got legends that believe in my work and folk I can call up right now and shoot the shyt with. Legit famous black artists. It's just a matter of time before I blow. I just gotta keep working.

 

[Batsute]

Naw it definitely tanked for black art. It was reported a Basquiat barely made it's asking price.

This is why we need a black art market, cause whites dictate what art should be and what it should be

That in and of itself is a whole conversation that doesn’t want to be had.