If your favorite masterpiece, a Matisse, is up for auction, You are bidding for it against a dazzling array of eccentric art dealers. Should you keep bidding as the price gets higher? Is it a bargain or a worthless forgery? You must decide quickly, but you will never know unless you outbid the competition. What is a masterpiece? Who brings them together? How does it become valuable? I got my answers from the ADAA Collectors Guide, and learned that the artworks exhibited in the San Francisco Modern Museum are priceless masterpieces. The ADAA stands for the Art Dealers Association of America. Founded in 1962, the mission of ADAA is to seek to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the profession. The ADAA organizes annual art shows. as well as operations of an appraisal service. The ADAA Collectors Guide proVided valuable information for dealers, buyers as well as would be collectors. Art dealers play important roles in the art world.
In the ADAA Collectors Guide, I learned that dealers’ Jobs are not limited to sale and resale of artwork, but they also do other work such as educating artists and collectors about art. They also publish exhibition catalogues, monographs, and an critiques. An art dealer published the catalog that I received from MOMA. However, some art dealers, they also advise their art collectors about lending and donating art for exhibition. According to the ADAA Collector s Guide, Dealers also advise their clients about lending and donating art, insurance, and framing conservation, cataloging and many other subjects of mutual interest. Museums and nonprofit spaces commonly request curatorial advice from dealers and ask for help in locating works that institutions wish to borrow for exhibition.
There are many on-going exhibitions in MONA. They are usually properties of collectors or other museums. When I was visiting MOMA, they had an exhibition of Childhood Imagery. Collector Kent Logon got many pieces of his renowned Childhood Imagery art collection from David Levinthal, Laurie Simmon, Yoshitomo Nara, and Hung Tung Lu. Kent Logon is considered to be one of the most generous childhood imagery art collectors if not the biggest, He offered the most extensive look at his collection yet in “The Darker Side of Playland,” which ended a national tour at the San Francisco Modern Museum, where it runs through January 17, 2001, The thirty playful and Wicked works of collages, paintings. photographs, and sculptures by four artists cover a period between the early Zoth century and the present. Each artist tries to produce work that speaks of his or her undesirable childhood memory and life experiences.
Art dealers are experts in all fields of fine art, with good knowledge of art history, practical experience and understanding of the marketplace. These skills are gained from the everyday immersion of trade; they look at art in different perspectives. Dealers know the uniqueness in a painting; the movement when a sculpture was built; and the history of all Art dealers present the visual culture for people to experience and explore their artistic worlds, Dealers collect and organize all the valuable artwork together, and because of them, MOMA exist, In MOMA, there are many early paintings of portraits, still life, and landscapes by artists such as Bradue, Matisse, Miro. and Picasso.
They reflect attempts to assimilate, producing new styles such as surrealism, cubism, impressionism, and fauVIsm Ketc. According to the ADAA Collector Guide. Art dealer are the wide eyed explorers and the heralds of the art world. uncovering fresh talent and new art ideas. Illuminating forgotten movements and rediscovering significant works of art. They are the pivotal link between working anists and their public. between sellers of art and collectors. Every artist wanted to show that they were as good as any other artists: they could do the same things that artists of the majority culture could do. They created new styles and Ideas for art dealers to play as rules of selecting and analyzrng their artwork to the public.
One of the painting that I like in MOMA. ‘Woman With the Hat. Matisse used loose brushwork. non- naturalistic colors. and exaggerated physical characteristics such as green tone skin color, and wide-opened eyes to portray the woman with the hat. In 1905. the first time he illustrated his fauvism paintings in a gallery no one really accepted his painting style people called his style of painting “faUVism.” as the Wild beast. From ADAA Collectors Guide I learned that [many] of these academic anists. seriously undervalued for years are experiencing a resurgence. To think differently. is What Henry Matisse was advocating by creating uniqueness idea and adding odd colors to describe the feelings and emotions of people which made this painting become a masterpiece.
An experienced art dealer should have the ability to examine what is a masterpiece. Besides creativity in a painting a masterpiece should also require in good condition accurate authenticity rarity exhibition history and value. According to ADAA Collector s Guide who have years of experience dealing in their areas of specialization are especially qualified to price works correctly and have a vested long»term interest in maintaining a stable market. The ADAA Collector s Guide provides some valuable information to both dealers and collectors. Knowing these information Will assure that one 5 art collecting experience to be enjoyed and rewarded to its fullest potential.
