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RE: Abstraction attraction. Why I get tens of thousands of dollar$ for my paintings.
This is great! I love art that has "secret bits" included... great story, too.
The whole copyist problem seems to have gained a lot of traction with the advent of smartphones with (basically) pretty high quality cameras. With our previous gallery, it was never much of an issue as it was a ways back (1985-99), with our current gallery there's a whole generation of people whose lives include holding their smartphone in front of their face to record every second of their existence.
Even though we have "this is a smartphone free zone" signs up, most people ignore them, or are deeply offended. There's a strange sense of (almost) entitlement there... and complete disrespect for other people's creativity.
Thank you my good man.
I have the same problem with this with smart phones.
I have signs in my gallery but every now and again I catch people and have to explain that it is not allowed. I politely say that they can buy a post card of the work if they like it so much but as you say people get offended.
I blame the internet itself.
An entire generation has grown up with the ease of "copy and paste" and this has become so common place that they just think it is OK. Downloading music, films, photographs, artwork etc is seen as a if it their right.
I think blockchain technology might help but not in daily life galleries.
This is why I came up with the idea of having secrets bits in my paintings.
Cheers, always good to hear your interesting comments.