Most people tend to congregate around famous paintings; either that or work that has obviously involved some kind of labour.
People want work that has consumed your time.
The common man and the child on the school trip don't give a fuck about Franz Kline. They want to see a Monet or a Dali.
If the abstract impressionists and painters like Rauchenberg used war painters and impressionists as their muses should we also use them?
Maybe there is a lack of "decent" art nowadays because we have no role models.
We're a talentless generation with nobody to look to.
I'm not going to use Tracey Emin as my fucking muse.
Cy Twombly's new paintings are magnificent. Bacchus and all that, and what has he done? He has drawn on the past for inspiration.
He didn't look to Warhol.
People immediately go toward paintings which they recognise/know something about/have been told to like (the Mona Lisa). People seem not to want to know about new artists - they'll take photos of Giaccometti's (which, don't get me wrong, are beautiful) but will walk past Duchamp's (not Marcel) horse sculpture.
How do I attract people to my work?
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