鴉PieFedTo the artists: What's the highest price you've been able to put on a work of art and end up managing to sell it to someone?
submitted by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml
I know artists often make art to try to get by, but you have to admit how high the prices would sound to outsiders, which is why I see people arguing over art pricing ethics all the time.
The arguments against pricey art: It is offensive to societal necessities to price art higher than that, and there comes a point in an art's price where it doesn't make sense to raise the price more based on what relative little went into making it.
The arguments in favor of pricey art: They help the artist and it's up to the person buying the art how much they're willing to pay.
Based on the arguments in favor of pricey art, what's the highest you've ever priced art (both with haggling intended/involved and without haggling intended/involved) and were able to sell it for that amount?
My daughter sold a painting for $250 last year. It was at a little gallery in a rural town.
She's still in art school, so it was her first big sale.
I've never sold any of my art but
What I find offensive is judging art on how much visible "effort" non-artists think went into it. That's not how that works.
Owning a piece of art is a luxury, nobody NEEDS it, it's not food or shelter or anything necessary for survival. Pricing is purely a matter between seller (artist) and buyer, I don't see how "ethics" come into it (other than when buyers are trying to shame artists into lowering their prices to a point where they can't live off their own work anymore).
I was a commercial artist (animator in AAA studio).
I sold my art, and paid for it with my own soul.
Burnt out.
Now I sketch for joy, not money.
About $750, IIRC. It was a resized copy of a piece that I'd made for a runway show. I think it took me about 60 hours in fittings, patterning, cutting, and sewing to make. (My sewing process wasn't very efficient, since I was working with a single machine, and had to keep changing it attachments, folders, feet, etc.)
It still takes me a long time to make my first piece--when I sew at all--but I'm faster now.
People often dismiss the high price of paint in a work also.
There are some styles which take huge volumes of expensive paint, some skill and maybe 20 minutes of labor. They sell for more than i can afford and the artist barely makes profit.