presenting your business

Our artist, Mr Burshy, decides to go professional, make investments in his marketing and expositions, having the right (but expensive frames), use more expensive materials etc etc. But that requires money so he decides to seek investors and connect with business. Some of his commercial ideas:

- workshop finger painting for managers

- color-meditation for complaining employees

- design your authentic aura; what are your true colors and how to show them to your people

- find your painter-archetype; are you a Rembrandt, or more a Van Gogh, Pollock or just an amateur

- business and painting; comparing 2 completely different worlds

Problem that our Art faces is that he is not from the business, and although all these ideas seem logical to him, business people do not seem to be very interested...what could make business people want to invest in anything that relates to art...?

Almost feels like work

Art has succeeded to market his art and finally have an exhibition, but now he faces the next challenge... which art works to exhibit, and ... he needs to seriously make some new ones... and preferably all in the same style... and what began as pure inspiration and freedom...now feels almost like work :)

you are stealing my composition - artists paranoia

Do you know these moments where you had a brilliant idea, been part of an exhibition and some other artists ask you "how did you do that". A bit of a dilemma... would you treat them as 'competitors' trying to copy from you, stealing the skills and methods you so carefully developed over the last years. Or are they travellers that are on the same journey, facing the same challenges, needing the same inspiration, and wanting to share the experiences on the way.
Art Burshy tries to remind himself in these cases that key evolutions in his learning have been influenced by others sharing their skills and insights with him.
But when people ask too much details or show too similar techniques he cant help to sometimes feel a bit paranoia...

Ambiguous relationship: art and religion

Some reflections after making this drawing:
Historically artists have tried to bridge the distance between 'now' and 'infinity' and addressing the existential questions in life. When exploring these subjects religion is always there; it is so much part of the culture that it can not be avoided. And as such the artist somehow needs to create his of her position towards religion. It can be to a) admire and using it as leading the way, b) explore looking at what religion means in certain contexts, c) ridicule from it and in some way attacking how religion creates an untrue image of the world, and d) ignore or focus temporarily on other subjects.
In the end, whenever going deeper into concepts and going deeper in the artists reflections existential questions appear; even if it was only the Freudian drive of the artist to overcome death by leaving traces of his/her art works as a heritage.

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