Wittig Report

EBay vs. Art Institute, Chicago

2/Feb/2005 13:35 - Chicago

Last week I took a day off painting and visited the Art Institute, Chicago. It was the first time in quite a while that I took the trip. I have always enjoyed visiting the Art Institute, but for the past several years, I have been so busy painting that I lost the habit of regularly checking out the Masters, Old and New.

When I began selling on eBay, I spent a few weeks studying the other eBay art sellers, to see what they were doing, and what worked and didn't work for them. I noticed that some of them were excellent painters/artists, and that some of them were incompetent, or competent painters, turning out what seemed to me to be 'what would sell', for the sake of the money.

After my trip to the Art Institute, I revisited eBay, but this time, instead of looking at people's work with an eye toward selling, I looked at it in context with what I had seen at the Art Institue.

Now, this is without a doubt, the shortest article I have ever written, but the point I am making does not require a lot of words, to be made.

In my opinion, some of the stuff selling on eBay for next to nothing today, is as good as a lot of the stuff hanging on the walls in the Art Institute, Chicago, and will probably wind up hanging in a major museum somewhere, eventually.

If you ignore what is happenning art-wise on eBay, now... you do yourself a great disservice.

Written on Red Hat 9, using the vi-improved editor

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