What an arrogant and nasty comment. Shame on you, but these words are wasted. You are so full of yourself.
Yep.
I’m an art historian by education and have worked as a consultant to private parties seeking to buy art works.
I alway tell my clients to buy art that they love rather than what they think will be an investment.
Buying for investment purposes sounds good in general, but the reality is having to pass by something daily that you may come to hate. Buy what you love.
That said, I always told them that they should buy the best that an artist produced. Whenever someone insisted on buying Kinkade, I tried to direct them to his early work in oils, as that is considered his best work. If nothing was available on the market at that time, I would suggest Maxfield Parrish.
Never, never, never buy something called a ‘collectible’ anything! It is a waste of you money and has little to no resale value.
It might be poor form to say someone's art was nothing more than commercial marketing on the eve of their death but it was not a nasty comment. It was the truth. Anyone that bought those painting bought into a middle class myth that it was valuable art.
Not trying to say anything nasty myself, just defending someone on FR that chose to speak the truth. FR used to be a place where you could speak the truth. The truth is that "art" is not going to go up in value.
$45 bucks opening bid on ebay...no takers