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11/21/2005: "ART & HUMAN NATURE GOOD NEWS" by Hyacinthe Baron
Bad news first. It has come to this:
A direct quote from Martha Stewart's LIVING Magazine: "Why buy expensive original art when our children create their own as good as Miro and we can hang theirs for free?" Good going just what everyone needs to hear.
An art exhibition for aberrant criminals:
A rapist and killer of four women serving a life sentence made the worst sketch of Christ and it is being auctioned on TV as art. Best part is he gets to keep the money from sales of his "art"?
NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS:
The Museum/Gallery Curator who will someday be the one to determine the greatness of your art was born on September 29th, 2005. We are pleased to announce that Asa Caharian Rosensweig Baron enjoys a successful heritage: A famous artist grandmother, Art Gallery Owner and Artist's Rep grandfather, English Professor Father, MFA Arts Grad Mother, and several uncles who are computer experts, writers and artists.
A Limited Edition of One:
We artists must let him age and ripen and develop the ingrained respect for our art works they so justly and grandly deserve.
Quite evidently it is not up to artists to decide what is great art and what is merely the scribblings of children and rapists. It is up to some unknown "Art Expert" to make the determination that this artist or other is "Great!" Thereby developing a "demand" for that artist's works.
So it seems that artists are not to blame if the world doesn't accept or demand our works. Artists suffer because we are very special people, among the few whose human nature permits us to forego societal and familial demands to create a world of our own based on our artistic connections to the elemental forces of the Universe.
Masterpiece Woman
Now that I am at a stage when my works and artistic successes are being archived through the establishment of a Museum Trust bearing my name, I can concentrate on the development of projects at the Baron Conservancy which will spearhead conceptual art works and events in order to offer artists the opportunity to experience and share their works in documented exhibitions that will last in posterity and be featured in a variety of media to come to the attention of that new guy we all wait for, the ART CURATOR/ LOVER and COLLECTOR.
While we are waiting for the bounty it is an awfully good idea to have our work archived, exhibited and published in a book such as the ART and HUMAN NATURE COLLECTION, Literary and Art Book which will be available for a long time to increase the number of venues where art can be seen. Submissions to Volume I end on November 23 at midnight, with publication in March 2006. However, due to the overwhelming world wide response artists are now invited to submit their works for Volume II to be published in the Fall, 2006. Please check out details on www.barongallery.com.
I am one of those artists who could never wait for the one great Curator to determine my fate. I have always grasped every opportunity and many unbelievably remarkable events have occurred during my career as an artist. I believe that if one person appreciates and admires an artist's work all the efforts are rewarded, and if they want to buy your work, well so much the better.
So, for those artists who create great art and are waiting for recognition, maybe you should try to produce a great art Curator.
Good night Asa.
Good night Grandma.
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