how to be a big shot collector with no money
Increasing knowledge about art is every expert’s recommendation to new collectors. See as much as you can, is the typically quoted piece of advice, and you’ll learn what quality looks like. But art stays put, and you can’t be everywhere, not even at different times.
If you’re fortunate enough to live near a major metropolitan city, you’ll have a small notion of the depth of contemporary art currently on show in the world. Even so, I suspect you could miss seeing about 95% of unaccountable art styles, trends, flavours, etc. You wouldn’t know what you’re missing. We’re just so all over the place as humans in contemporary society that styles vary greatly regionally, never mind nationally.
AbsoluteArts.com does its best to help our cause in this effort, with tens of thousands of artists siphoned through their internet pipes. The organisation of the site is somewhat haphazard, but the image data is replete. Through absoluteArts.com, it’s quite easy to find artists that you would have never come into contact with in the real world. While digits are no replacement for physical art, it’s better than not having seen the work at all.
The business end of absoluteArts.com is to match buyer with seller, and they appear to be successful. Otherwise, why would they exist; to upload art to the web out of the goodness of their own heart?
But another reason I like absoluteArts.com is its service MyAbsoluteArts Collection. This allows me to collect art I don’t own. I can visit my collection whenever I want to, and, if I have the budget, even purchase my favourite pieces. I can see this type of utility going a long way for both artists and collectors. Imagine creating a slide show on a flat screen monitor at one of your cool, impress your friends type parties. Every 60 seconds, your painting changes More artists are exposed to more art lovers - what’s not to like about that?
AbsoluteArts.com doesn’t provide that type of service yet; that’s just something from my imagination. But what artist wouldn’t want more exposure to their images, even if it’s only a digital edition? And what collector wouldn’t love discovering new and different art from around the world without hopping their private jet?