Southwest Landscape Art Articles - by Herbert Benjamin


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Smart Investors Look To The Southwest Landscape And Painting Artist Of Today These artist work hard at their trade and well deserve the attention of the art collectors of today. Their work is every bit as good as the great artist of the past were. Checking the net at different investments blogs around I find some very interesting quotes. Quotes like: 'The great percentage gains are made by buying artists’ work when they are on the threshold of success.' from thinkingmanagers blog. Other quotes like ‘One of the best gifts that anyone could buy is an original work of art from a living artist. It enriches your life in ways you never expect.’...’SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS. I think that it's best to buy works online from artists who are alive and working.’ from "Tips for collecting art online" by Michael Corbin	And another from the mimmiamiartexchange that says 'According to Manhattan art advisor Thea Westreich, in addition to the start-up funds, there are a number of informal partnerships where paintings and other works of art are flipped solely for investment purposes. “Collectors/art investors are putting together small syndicates and they increase in number daily. You see them at fairs; they’re wearing baseball caps and sneakers; they act covertly but dealers are starting to recognize them”, she says, adding, “All these new financial ventures will ultimately skew the marketplace”. ' We see that today market places are changing. From the world of just around the block of your local store to the ‘world is the block around the corner’. The Internet now brings the world to your door and finding that investment art, fine art or artist is just a click away. They have their works on line and you can deal directly with them. The brick and mortar buildings can no longer eat half of the lunch of today’s artist. Now with the Internet the today’s artist can have his lunch and eat it. At the same time the smart investor can save bucks dealing direct. 4 Comment by Herbert Benjamin


Waiting for that next great southwest art?
Art work takes time to create so here are things to do while watching paint dry. First on the list is to ‘clean up your site’. Take the time to take a close look at it and tidy up a bit. Fix your jpeg’s, tiff's & gif’s and make sure url links match. Dot your e’s and cross your alt ’s. Once you have all your htm's in a row then it's time to dig into the heavy work. Digging into the ror's, rss's and xml's. Grabbing that reader and listing that blog. Submitting that com, gov or org. Making sure your gig’s will fit your avi's and mpg’s. Scroll to that script and list that flash. These are the things that make it last. That picture better flash and that ad must pay. Cause this is the Internet way. The old hex key pad ain’t what it used to be. Now a days its type away, type away, type away all. Ring up that sale and toss out that walk. Send it by snail and check it with speed. Cause now is when it's in need. Ad goo to that pile and m to that alt. Just ask big mama or crawl. Search for this and search for that. Find it in the middle of that pack. Dig deeper and deeper just to end	in a blog. Find that wig-wag or send that widget. It’s time well spent all in a minute. Throw out the old flop and zip to the new. That disk of the past is the pod around town. The bit of that bite who nibbled that rom went ram away all. Narrow is out and wide is in. We wav ed the av gone along with the past. Gone are the ftm’s and bmps. Here today are the php’s and the sql’s. So now is the time to clean up that site and make sure all is just right. The zip that was zap is now just that. Ring in the new and delete the old. Make sure that trash can gets full. As new marches on so does the tech. Just as one would suspect. So when that next art piece does arrive. There is room on the walls for those still dry. Art comes with a price, some say too high. But over the years many survive. Time kills many and works do die. But from them all, the best are alive. Fill up your drives and beef up your cpu’s. Because in the end, great art will hang with the ‘Vue’. 4 Comment by Herbert Benjamin

Is southwestern landscape art dead?

White poster board splattered yellow and called art. In today’s ‘rat race’ maybe that is all that one wants. Look at a painting and say, I could have done that! One wonders if there is any real art works being created in today’s art world? Ever ask where is the real talent? Look at the galleries and museums of today and you see all the ‘masters’ and then their counterparts of today’s contemporary art. At art galleries you wonder if the realism of the art world still exist in the artists of today. Contemporary defines as, belonging to the same period of time, current, a person of the same age. Ever been told that real talent in today’s art world is gone. Or we don’t sell southwest art? Landscape art a thing of the past? Is the fact that the living earth is dead as well? Contemporary and Southwest art is not the same! Sell a product, any product. The talent to make and sell do not all ways go hand in hand. Thus the true artist in us all is cheated. Cheated because we cannot	always view the truly realistic contemporary artists of our day. Some of us know that in the art world realism is not dead. It is alive and well and living in the southwest. In the deserts and mesa’s of America’s southwest, and elsewhere, where some of America’s most talented artist still apply their trade. Most go over looked in today’s ‘rat race’. The Internet is finally changing all that. It puts the artist and the promoter on an even scale. Finally in this fast pace of today’s world we can all sit and enjoy the real art world of the contemporary artist. No longer can the brick and mortar galleries eat half the lunch that the artist took many hours creating. The online galleries of the Internet have forever changed that! 4 Comment by Herbert Benjamin

Southwest landscape art, an investment?

Are value, workmanship, quality and beauty worth the price of admission into the world of investing? Are the master paintings of the art world worth millions? Can you get in on the ground floor of investing with southwest landscape art? How much is the art of today’s artist worth? Consider the time and effort that one takes to produce a piece of art work. A thrown can of paint on canvas, 10 minutes. Or a fine art landscape painting that took many long arduous hours or even months to produce. Of the two is not the latter worth more? A true Investment grows in value over time. If one can see the beauty in that value over time is it not worth more? Buy low and sell high, is the motto of the investor. In today’s market the under valued will gain the most. But how does one judge the price of fine art today. Original , giclée or print which one is the best to own? Blue chip, mutual fund or penny stock? Compare the price that one is	willing to pay and invest to that of what can be gained. One needs only to judge what he or she sees as the ‘value is in the beholder’. The southwest artist of today put many long hours into their craft. Few craftsmen and women of today get the recognition that they truly deserve. Look upon the price of workmanship that goes into a fine art piece. The every day survival of trying to live while producing today’s masters in oil. If a painter spent 40 hours a week for 4 weeks to make one painting and sold it for $2,000 then he would have made a whole $2.50 an hour. This is the price of true craftsmanship. The southwest artists of today are still working their trade but at such a cost. Today’s investors are missing a huge opportunity. But most are interested only in the ‘quick buck’ of today. Online galleries make finding that investment of tomorrow even easier than it ever was. One only needs to be sitting at your desk to find today’s deal of a life time. 4 Comment by Herbert Benjamin
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