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Welcome to collectors of fine art everywhere!
This is our inaugural issue of "The Fine Art Of Collecting Art."
We hope you will enjoy it enough to continue your free
subscription and to tell your friends about us. Thank you for
your patience while you waited for us to publish this first issue.
Methods for establishing your art collection.
You have always loved art. Now you want to buy art either for
your home or to begin a collection. How do you buy art?
Where should you look for art? What kind of art should you
buy?
These are all excellent questions that most emerging
collectors ask. But who is there to answer those questions?
Before any art purchase is made ask yourself some questions:
1. What kind of art do I like?
2. What colors do I like?
3. Where will I hang this art?
4. What direction will my collection take?
5. What is more important, the painting or the artist?
6. How often do I want to purchase art?
7. What is my yearly art budget?
8. What venues should I seek out to buy art?
First determine what kind of art speaks to you. Do you love
large, abstract paintings with beautiful colors and exciting
shapes, or do you love paintings of cities or landscapes? Will
your collection be of regional works? This decision is very
important because it gives you a starting point and a
direction. It helps to narrow down the art that you really like
and appreciate vs. becoming overwhelmed by the infinite
numbers of artwork being sold today.
What colors do you like? This may sound like an inane fact to
take into consideration, but most collectors notice that their
collections have a predominate palette. Usually this is an
unconscious choice, but many collectors know what palette
feels right to them. Take awhile to think about color, and how
the artist has used it.
Where will you hang your art purchases? How will you
present it? If you like large imposing pieces, then you will
want to buy striking pieces that work alone on their own wall
or in their own space. If you like small intimate pieces or a
combination of large and smaller works then you might
consider hanging work salon style.
What direction will your collection take? Don't worry if you
don't know. Your early career as an art collector may be
entirely different from your later career as an art collector.
When this happens both generations of your collection will
generally begin to mesh.
Are you buying the painting or the artist? You should buy
both. Always buy what strikes a chord with you, but don't
discount the background of the artist. This could be very
important should you ever decide to sell a work from your
collection.
How often do you want to buy a work of art for your
collection? Collecting can become addictive. You buy one
piece and then decide that you need two more by the same
artist or the same genre. You might want to limit your art
purchases to one or two works every other month until you
find the direction that you want to go in.
As an emerging art collector, you might want to set a yearly
budget for buying art. This will help you to make wise
decisions and in the end buy what you really love as opposed
to something for your collection. There is a huge difference.
Where should you look for art? You might want to start with
your local art galleries. Ask to be put on the mailing list of
several local art galleries. Attend the monthly art openings,
and talk to the gallery owner and the artists. Get to know the
artists before you begin to buy art.
Look at online art venues such as ArtPrice.com, ArtByUs,
e-MOCA.com, and artmajeur. There are hundreds of online
art venues. The benefits and drawbacks of online venues will
be discussed in our next issue.
Please email me with any questions that you might have.
Ruth Robertson
Ruth Robertson Fine Art
www.ruthrobertson.com
ruthrobertsonart@aol.com
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