I spent 2008 account art blogs, Web 2.0 business blogs, and cerebration up guerrilla business approach for artists. I saw amusing networking, amusing media, and the democratization of the art exchange put added affairs ability into the calmly of artists.
Therefore, I'd like to allotment 5 affidavit why, admitting (and because of) the bread-and-butter crisis, I accept 2008 was a acceptable year for artists:
1. Web 2.0: A New Frontier for Art
A amount of artists accept in fact started to actualize art about the abstraction of Web 2.0: collaborative, multimedia, and alternate works. For example, an artisan may accomplish the artwork, alike altered contributors, again abandon ascendancy absolutely to the public. Culture-Buzz.com highlights a alternative of absorbing projects.
2. Amusing Networking Sites (Facebook)
A Facebook page is a fun, absolute way to affix to your friends, supporters, and acquaintances: usually humans who accept bought your plan in the past. You can calmly column your website pages or blog posts to Facebook, which your accompany will be added acceptable to see and visit.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art developed a Facebook appliance alleged Art Share. It lets Facebook users allotment works art from Museums about the apple on their profile. Artists can upload and allotment their own plan appliance this application.
From Facebook to Artspan to Deviant Art, artists are award that there's a lot to be acquired from amalgamation together. Online art communities allotment inspiration, tips, links, ideas, and animate a spirit of advantageous competition.
3. YouTube (Val's Art Diary)
Look out Damien Hirst. Without galleries, auctions, or dealers, this adolescent artisan angry herself into a art-selling powerhouse.
Her art, beneath accustomed circumstances, would maybe accomplish it into alone a scattering of galleries. Yet she's managed to go from affairs no paintings to affairs EVERY PAINTING SHE MAKES by filming in time-lapse, alteration economically, announcement the video to youtube, again affairs the section on eBay.
Almost all computers appear with video alteration software. Why not try your duke at a video of your own process?
4. Twitter
The apple seems disconnected amid humans who anticipate Twitter is the greatest apparatus of 2008 and those who anticipate it's a big, awe-inspiring decay of time. It took a little while, but I now accord whole-heartedly to the 'greatest gadget' crowd.
Like any tool, Twitter is what you accomplish of it. If you advance a afterward and cheep regularly, you can accumulate your art and your cast on the minds of the humans who are interested. If you don't apperception bond the claimed and the professional, Twitter and Facebook are the means to go.
5. The Recession
That's right! I said it. A abatement in the abridgement ability be the being of nightmares for some, but artists can about-face these into defining moments, arduous themselves to absolutely yield action, to advertise added art, aggrandize their resources, deepen their message, and affix to their communities.
Why not doubly baffle the bad bread-and-butter account by chief to:
donate to an art fund
sponsor an artisan in a developing country
join added museums
invest in your art career
