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What does the art you make and buy, tell the world about you? How art is invisibly powerful? How art reflects who you are?
Art and Influence – How we choose…
Art can be immensely powerful in the way it influences spaces, ambience, energies and the way we see and perceive are mostly what drive art into us or not. Whether we like it or not, the truth in my eyes and the way I see it is that we like a work of art or we don’t not simply because it’s not good or it’s great. For example, if we like an abstract painting. We like it because we see it in relation to us. We dislike it because we see it in relation to us and it doesn’t seem to strike a chord of resonance or there is no connection we can make, or there is simply a difference of opinion or invisible unintended depth in our subjective lens and vice versa.
Having said that, it is crucial to keep in mind, how John Berger says that what we see based on what we look at, is always in relation to us. We resonate with for example an abstract painting, but our friend doesn’t. It is not necessarily because it is influencing a decision, otherwise it would be objectively and universally acclaimed and liked or praised. Why is it not so with art, whether it be corporate office paintings, or paintings for homes, canvas paintings, paintings in art galleries, any form of art for that matter, performing and fine arts included, such as photography and film too; why is it that there are always to or three sides to viewpoints, opinions, and resonance that people feel is good, neutral, or not good?
It is because we are always looking at the art from a point of view where we are placing ourselves in relation to it and then if we stand in the high resonance zone, we love it. If it challenges us, we may rethink our beliefs or our causes of resistance and if we don’t agree well the art may make one think why it is on the other side of the spectrum. But what happens to influence then? Influence is very much a part. As Creators when we gauge responses to our work and see it being appreciated, we feel reassured that the perception we are creating with the work organically is working for an audience. Even in art galleries in Bangalore and all over the world, influence is about whether relevance and empathy to name a couple of the most important qualities are in place for it all to come together to create an impact for people to remember and involve in.
The Economics of the art market, for one to make or buy…
According to the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report of 2024, “In 2023, the Chinese art market, constrained for several years due to COVID-19 restrictions, overtook the UK to become the second-largest market globally. Elsewhere, high inflation, economic volatility, and divisive conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine cast a pall on activity as fairs, auctions, and exhibition calendars reared back to pre-pandemic norms. The eighth edition of our landmark report, The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, authored by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics and published in partnership with UBS, sheds light on these complex developments as it reveals decisive trends and emergent tendencies within the global art business. The art market contracted last year after two consecutive years of growth, falling by 4% to an estimated $65 billion. This decline spanned both dealer and auction sectors, as sellers and buyers adjusted to evolving market conditions. Although down year-on-year, the market nevertheless remained above its pre-pandemic level of $64.4 billion, and fears of a broader correction in the fourth quarter were averted owing to resilience in the November marquee auctions in New York and a strong sequence of fall fairs, including Art Basel’s second edition in Paris and the Miami Beach mainstay in December.”
The volume of sales increased in 2023, albeit principally at lower levels. Concomitantly, average sales for smaller dealers with a turnover of less than $500,000 expanded by 11%. In a sharp reversal of recent trends, the high end of the market, which has been driving sales since 2020, contracted in 2023, with the largest dealers with turnovers of over $10 million reporting average declines of 7% by value. These tendencies were reflected qualitatively as well, with a softening of frenzied speculative buying and more value- and quality-conscious collectors setting the pace. Online sales also had a strong year, up by 7%, now accounting for a total of $11.8 billion, or 18% of the market – bringing the digital component of the art market in line with other industries. This underlines how this segment of the art business is maturing, with dealer’s own websites being the preferred outlets for collectors to make their purchases. High-net-worth collectors – surveyed last year by Arts Economics in collaboration with UBS – are looking positively into 2024, with 77% of HNW collectors remaining optimistic about the market.” – The excerpt is quoted from the “Foreword by Art Basel” from the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report of 2024.
Therefore, when we watch, observe, and realize that our own zonal markets are changing so fast, the directionality to the dynamics of market caps and nature of trend generation too keeps changing in an interesting, interleaved basis. There can be no precise prediction of the art market upping its stats one way or the other. It is all indeed relative and relative to the hilt. Economies of course play monumental roles, but it is notwithstanding that people who love art will always stay on scene to purchase and produce, both. There can be no taking without making is always what I feel exists in the art industry.
There is a lot of fresh energy and manpower entering the ring of the arts. There is so, more purchasing power also today as the lifestyles of the peoples is changing and incrementally getting better. Therefore, there is for sure an increasing investment cap and a narrower stagnant gap in the array of transactional bridges of the art economy being flooded with acquired frauds and middlemen. Whether it be abstract paintings for homes in Bengaluru or corporate office paintings, and whether in private residential and commercial spaces or in art galleries in Bangalore and anywhere else in the world, there is a market upsurge and influence of art growing positively as economically viable for the better.
Investment and Expectation
As an investment with excellent returns on investment, art works have become an exceedingly precious lineup of possessions amongst the rich, famous, and elite. There are always two sides to investing in works of art. They say a lot about what the person is, because of the focus, intention, and keenness to buy that work of art. Mostly seen in the auctions at the reputed auction houses such as Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips, Bonhams and such. Whether it be abstract paintings for homes in Bangalore, customized paintings, paintings on wood, canvas paintings; picked up from a shop or art galleries in Bangalore or anywhere around the world in accordance, there can be multiple ramifications to the context of investment. Or rather the context in which an investment is made.
But the content always remains authentic and precious. Nature of investment in art has quiet the bit evolved and escalated over time. If we look at the estimated art market size of around 65 billion dollars it is a drastic, dramatic, positive, amazing, escalation or we can say proliferation form even say twenty years or thirty years ago. Whether is be prints we’re speaking of, abstract paintings for homes in Bangalore, printmaking, sculptures, installations, any diverse possibility, there is today a more receptive, profession, regulated environment to things with channels, mediums, residencies, and grants.
But for the buyers when the Creators or art galleries are for example trusted with the assignment for some abstract paintings for corporate offices or abstract paintings for homes, there is a brutally honest intention to look behind the seen and beyond the existent data to make sure it turns out a worthy asset in the future. The buying mentality does not necessarily dwell on the current only. It is also about how it happens to be driving itself when needed in one ground and not in another.
Implications of the investment upon the market, for example when a painting such as Salvator Mundi sells for a whopping 450 odd million dollars at auction, what is it that it does to the market in terms of investment statistics? There is we can say a significant amount of science and meticulous outlook into pricing but maybe not so for bidding. As investment in art whether it be forty dollars, or such millions of dollars is always an instinctive, intangible push to buy that piece of art for a liking, as status for many people, as the joys of a collector to add to a precious collection or even to a layman for reverence and power as a symbolism through a painting.
The connotations are many. There is only scarce expectation that there can be a predicted amount or no restoration in the future or variety of factors when it comes to masters and its finances. There can be no looking back to when the investment was made and did not reap value as those were different times. Today, everything a spart of history have their own testimonies to be spoken about and spoken to, too. How do we look at the investments we make in art today and thereby, what do we expect from or of it. A reference point can be the auction house stated earlier called Sotheby’s who have 10 criteria to determine value in art and objects according to their series ‘The Value of Art, Presented by Sotheby’s Financial Services’ : as stated “Authenticity, Condition, Rarity, Provenance, Historical Importance, Size, Fashion, Subject Matter, Medium and Quality”. These criteria are an amazing guideline to how we can invest in art in an informed and aware, cautioned, and passionate way, whether it be prints we’re speaking of, abstract paintings for homes in Bangalore, printmaking, sculptures, installations or any other form of art.
Value in making and taking
When we take the example of abstract paintings for sale in Bangalore, canvas paintings and even customized paintings for that matter, their authenticity becomes exceedingly important. The originality and authentic nature of the abstract paintings on sale is very important for the sale to happen more so to informed, enthusiastic art buyers. And, as Creators the other side is that it is too important as Creators to make authentic paintings to then also receive the best possible investments on our works.
The condition of the abstract painting or customized paintings at the time of sale and then at the time of say resale if we are talking of investment and return on investment respectively in that sense, needs to definitely be heeded to and attended to with the utmost detail and meticulousness. The Provenance then comes into play which is the thread of owners which provides even more or less credibility and affluent assurance that the authenticity and originality is taken care of. Often since art is treasured the provenance plays a very important role in adding to the fame and narrative to learn the contexts that the work might have seen and lived through. This can also define the perceptions and meanings it has made through its existence across its history and its geographies if traveled. The historic importance of the work therefore is about its contexts with the same content.
Size, subject matter, medium and quality are all a package of togetherness. Which are subjective and therefore once examined and its story known, matter only in the numbers and experience for the future. For instance, a one foot by one foot painting of just one leaf is going to be valued differently from a close-up of the same leaf on. The same one foot by one foot could be valued for more, and much more, than the whole leaf. Which of these factors matter how much to each person will tell us about their buyer mindset and investment capabilities too play significant roles in both aligning to find a suitable buy. Of course, art consultants and agents can be put on the job in order to get it all in place to customize or capitalize on the experience and outcome respectively.
Art Making Process and Impact
As Creators, we not only always look for inspiration but also ways to deepen and substantiate our art making processes. There is only a fine line between what one wants to make and what one wants to say with what one makes. Like the Indian Film Director and Producer Zoya Akhtar says that perspective is most important. The point of view on the subject is what makes an artist different from another. What is our work about and what are we saying. How we are saying what we are saying and in context more so, why we are saying what we are saying.
As far as the process is concerned, the process pretty much is a journey of discovery, not only of the work itself but also of oneself through the artwork. As the famous abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock once said, “Art is coming face to face with oneself”. The process itself is a timeline of discovering facets of the paintings as painters and aspects of ourselves as painters. This is a beautiful dual process of what one sees, knows, and does whilst in the groove, painting in the studio. There can be a variety of consequences for what one deems as authenticity, for what will become provenance and also the decisions on the medium, surface, size, and materials. The subject matter and quality also become integral to determining the other side too for the future and lifespan of the abstract paintings for homes in Bangalore, or globally.
As far as the consequences we stated go, there is how the painting will bring about the qualities that the space reflects, of the people who inhabit it and of the people who visit and see it to sense it too. There can be other factors as well such as the painting becoming a focal point, tying up the space together and also depicting some length of character development in the space to add some depth and elemental ambience. This is why even art galleries dwell a lot on the character of the paintings, the aesthetics of the space and the nature of the particular artist, the process of the artwork and its presence coming alive in the space are what spin the magic of the paintings in their spaces.
Perception and Meaning
The art one makes as a Creator and the art one buys as a Buyer are all based on perception as a basic factor. There can be no parallels drawn on the bases of what one would like and what one would not. Having said that a Francis Bacon Triptych is perceived very differently from a Claude Monet Landscape. The essence of perception rests fully and only on context. It is context, context, and context all the way. The context we are in, either as Creators or Consumers is how we make and how we take and therefore how we basically and deeply, see. We make what we see, and we buy what we see. We make what we perceive, and we buy what we can perceive maybe and never in fact maybe in whole. And none of what we are saying is assertive, in whole, or in full terms. No. It is but what we see that we perceive and as John Berger says we see what we look for rather than look at many-a-time.
The derivation of meaning and resonance, empathy or unconnected relationships between art works and us and resistance may rest on our thoughts, circumstances, ideologies, situational maturity, knowledge of the subject, and so much more. That is exactly why from both sides of perception, it is only context that serves as fodder for cause and as food for consequence. The context is also what therefore makes up the majority of a Creator’s and Buyer’s mindset while making or buying. Who they are, where they come from and where they plan to go. That is why even someone who buys a Bacon will be perceived differently from someone who buys a Monet. It is all a game of context and content – that equation which makes a difference. There is a marked difference in the way one would perceive a buyer of abstract paintings for homes in Bangalore from an art gallery in Bangalore vs someone who would buy a portrait or landscape that someone picked up form an art gallery in Bangalore.
Therefore…
As Creators, we have different considerations and as Buyers, we the same people will end up probably having very different considerations or highly similar considerations too. That too is so subjective because it also depends on if as a Creator one is going to make originals but also make copies in form of prints and sell or one is only going to make originals. Also depends on how easy or difficult it is to reproduce a work of art in order to protect its authenticity, condition, and credible provenance to name a few factors that are crucial in what the works say about us as Creators for our Buyers too.
As Buyers, we may think about all the criteria we discussed earlier in order to objectively and practically judge if the work of art is worth investing hard earned money or not. At the end of the day, while one end aims to offer best value possible the other aims to get best value possible at the best price amicably for both. The works of art, both made and sold, thus according to their sensibility, context in relation to content and the artistic process convey what the Viewer needs to know for the work to speak for the Creator. While for the buyer, their tastes and preferences take the head to tell us what they resonate with, what their personality reflects in that space and the energy we feel as far as the depth and feeling are concerned.
That is why art is so powerful, influential, economically viable, credible, and precious, reflective, and resemblant and most importantly emotional and heartfelt. There can be such an intimate connection between people and art that it becomes an inevitably invisibly powerful force in our daily lives and gives us something new every time we offer it a new us. A relationship that keeps evolving and tells the world infinite stories of its own from the tapestries of the past to the present and what the collections will tell future progeny about the art the families held and till today hold precious forever in optimistic spirit.
About Sparsha By Radhika
Exploring possibilities through a variety of these artistic doors, at Sparsha by Radhika, we explore possibilities with concept and feeling to embed memorable experiences for our clients’ spaces to be energised in the most effective and special ways with our abstract paintings in Bengaluru. We work Pan India and Abroad.
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Radhika is an abstract artist creating abstract paintings based in Bengaluru, servicing abstract art requirements for HNI homes and Commercial Spaces.
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