Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/19/my-uncle-from-romania-just-b.html
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he is too humble for his own good, and feels that promoting his artwork would be bragging of some sort
Man i relate to this a lot. Back when i was regularly making art i would put in minimal effort to share it because they were things i did for the love of it, not as a way to get attention. I’m so-so on this sculpture but there are elements of it that i really dig.
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Everyday Romanian objects like snakes, teeth…
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This is a really big issue for a lot of artists. Even when they can overcome that hurdle, many of my friends have trouble with the idea of monetizing it; putting a value on their works seems anathema to the deeply personal nature of it. Yet another argument for broader arts education in public schools.
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RaD!
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There are a lot of feels connected with making art not the least
of which those connected with storage problems.
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This is too garishly executed and a mishmash of over the top non complimentary styles for my taste- but even so, that is really well executed.
I can definitely see the skill involved here- it’s not quite my taste- but it is really well done.
Looking around his page though- some of his other stuff in same vein, I really like. The guy has real skill
I’d say for an ex-chef- this is damn nice work. I wish I had an uncle like this!
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It’s not just the idea of setting a price on a personal work. Once you get past the reluctance to monetize you are faced with the realities of actually doing it. Putting it up on the web can be really rewarding in social interactions and personal validation, but if you’re talking sales, likes don’t easily translate into cash. Money is tight, and art is everywhere, and for free. The artists I know, the most talented ones, who have come anywhere near being recompensed for their time, even at minimum wage, have all been either really lucky or really good at, hmm… not just sales, but, social engineering? Like, to the extent of being straight up con artists. And spend the majority of their time selling rather than creating. And even then they have to focus on the most lucrative customers – people with more money than sense – who buy not because they appreciate the art but because their egos have been properly stroked. Shearing that particular breed of sheep requires very particular skills and mindset – pandering, flattering and hustling become second nature, and the people you sell to are the people you most despise. For most artists – most people – that’s impossible, or repugnant. Or if it comes naturally they find an outlet in more lucrative fields – used car sales, real estate fraud, politics.
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Yeah, the web has really upended a lot of factors in art; valuation, reproduction, dissemination and context. I have one friend who was able to really take advantage of online commission-based work, but she’s crazy talented and also equally well versed in digital and physical media. Making the leap across that threshold can be incredibly daunting. Still, she worked constantly and didn’t make nearly as much as her talent implied she should have.
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OK so he found a terminator head. We know from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles how that ends…
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Of my friends who get somewhat regular commission work the two who come closest to the minimum wage standard do pet portraits and furselves respectively. They spend a lot of time emphasizing their particular “brand” because, while they do good work, there are plenty of people online who do it just as well and for less money. And that’s from another side-effect of the web: education. Time was, becoming an artist meant going to art school, or at least to some city with a thriving art scene. That gave you access to texts, training, materials, and, even more important, the chance to interact with other artists and to see great art. Now with how-to videos, social media, chat apps, and of course Amazon, aspiring artists never have to leave their rooms, much less their tiny uninspiring towns, and the general level of skill has risen exponentially. You see the same thing in photography – although I guess that’s as much to do with universal access to digital processing and steadily advancing cell phone camera tech. In stand-up it’s clearer-- when I was a kid the level of expertise at open mics was just soul-destroyingly bad. Nowadays almost all of the performers in my not-so-big generally-uninspiring hometown have something approaching a tight five, honed from countless hours of reviewing videos, their own and others, and referencing online tutorials. I wouldn’t say most of them are really funny, I mean, it’s open mic… but the increase in the level of competency is breathtaking. Which is to say… that’s good, right? Art becomes something everyone can do, rather than the realm of paid specialists. Sucks for career artists, I guess, but they never did that well even pre-internet. How can we object to the world getting better? Like this: those fucking kids have it too easy these days!
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The adeptus mechanicus approves.
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Just be careful about sharing your art here on BBS, due to terms of service. By the TOS anything you link to (not only upload, which would be reasonable) is released on CC license and additionally:
you grant us an unlimited license to use your content in any way we choose.
So for example selling that license to someone who would in the future upload your works to some kind of copyright filter (like the ones EU wants to implement) would be legally possible.
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This piece says, “Steampunk, you are dead to me.”
Uh… so… about that…
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Let’s not forget that this man was a chef.
Which leads me to wonder just what the hell kind of dishes would someone with his artistic vision cook?
I’m picturing Uncle Snakeskull serving one of his creations to Gordon Ramsay and waiting expectantly for a reaction.
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