Do You Want To Be Noticed?

Depends on what you want to be noticed for - get noticed for the burnt canvas in a glass jar and then where do you go from there? Better be prepared to come up with similar high jinx.

I hate I missed the flute playing cow. I bet it was mooving piece.

Hi Dan, I think to be noticed because people actually like and want your work is one thing...but to be noticed because you did something so bizarre or weird is more on the level of that 15 minutes of fame thing...like Edward said what do you do next?

I suppose if you are Jeff Koons or similar just come up with something even weirder, more expensive and laugh all the way to the bank. ;-)

I can see it possibly working if you need to stand out among the masses. If your main theme is floral you'd have to do something different to be noticed...otherwise it's just another flower. But if you stand out too much just for the sake of being different it seems like what Val said would be true.

I always get turned off by art that gives me the feeling that the artist was trying harder to get noticed or to be different, than trying to create a great work of art.

Anyone can be different. Not everyone can create great works.

I think its more about focusing on developing your skills, being inspired, and producing quality moving pieces of work. Just plain well done art. I think as a whole big picture to do what you do at the highest level of skill and quality will stand out. There are alot of people doing art just as anything. When I scan thru the masses yes the weird ones stop u for a moment but the ones that really stop you are the ones taking an over used subject and propelling it to superior results

It's hard to find work that isn't derived from elsewhere. But unique doesn't make for important.

I think it's important to do art in a way that you feel compelled to do it, regardless of what it may mean to others.

For the most part I don't care that I am noticed. I'd like those who would enjoy my art it to be able to find it.

A rather timely subject, given that Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" sold (May) at Sotheby's for $185k. That's a loss of $90k to the original owner, more when you figure in commissions. Was not a good investment. Sensational doesn't always translate into longevity.

A lot of artists believe that in order to get noticed, you have to stand out from the crowd by being "different". The problem is, once you've made that splash, you need to maintain it, and not many can follow that up. Hence the endless stream of one-hit wonders in the music world, and I am afraid to say, the art world too.

Develop a style, grow within that space, and build your brand.

No need to fill a jar with urine to get attention.

-YoPedro

I totally agree with many of the replies....yes, YO....Develop a style, grow within that space, and build your brand....but do it differently than anyone else. Example: “Onement VI” from abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman. A large blue canvas with a single vertical white line. While on exhibit it received 1,000 views daily. It sold for nearly $44 million.

Newman, chose to be noticed. He did not expect to be rich. Just to be noticed.

Great question, I don't believe that art can survive on just being a gimmick. If the work inspires future artist to explore a direction and their work inspires others then you are most likely doing important work. The one season wonders come and go but all you can do in your life is the best work possible. If your work leads you to taking a photo putting it into a jar and burning it, great that might be a direction art can go. However just doing work to be noticed seems like a waste of time, at least if you are serious about art.

I don't want to be "noticed," I'd like to be appreciated for doing creative work. Mine is photography-based. Regarding finding that formula to allow you to continue working in the same style, that doesn't work for me. Every time I come up with a "style," I can never seem to repeat it in any satisfactory way, although I've tried. That's why I have so many "one-offs" (as they say in England) in my gallery. Lol. What works once doesn't seem to work a second time. I envy those who have been able to continue working in their particular style.

This conversation reminds me of the difficult child in the classroom.....wanting attention, whether good or bad.

I was noticed once, paid the fine, then got on with my life.

It is interesting that you have "personalized" your works Dan. 3rd person objective representational art?

Your what question of "What would you create to get noticed?" In my case should be "how" would you create. Subject is ad nauseam but methodology becomes the focus and catalyst.

It's a conundrum, almost fame vs art vs money. Picasso's early work was skillful, then innovative, and after a certain level of notoriety and fortune, seemed to go dramatically downhill (in my opinion at least). He became Picasso acting Picasso, which is fine really - better that than stopping altogether and devoting his remaining years to chess. Anyway I'm quite sure he was having a good time, which is the main thing.

Now, if you take someone like Van Gogh who was not necessarily having a good time at all - and whose works are now completely iconic - but weren't considered to be much chop in the time he was creating them - I doubt that in the back of his hallucinations he was thinking 'One day, long after I'm gone, I shall have inspired thousands, if not millions, of artists!'

The point being that it's up to the artist to create what they want - it may be eye-catching, or it may be extremely low-key, and it's a good idea to stretch yourself and explore both extremes

I have favorite artists and often wish they'd put themselves 'out there' a little more: a spot on Letterman, directing a video clip, publishing their journals or whatever, something than I can connect with further.

My art teacher has a wonderful saying: " Dare to be lousy" Jim Repenning

Don't get stuck in the status quote try new things and see where it takes you.

I could relate to the square cloud idea, and I actually have one. It's over Mount Rainier, and I was told to look and see how many Mount Rainier pictures were better than this one with the square cloud.

So, yes, the square cloud has be done before, by me. Be careful not to overdo it or "copy" my idea. ;-)

Just wondering, too, if those of us who get lots of comments on the variety of our work are dead in the water because of it. How can be we known for anything in particular when we're known for a bit of everything?

I'd like to be known as someone who can accommodate a client on short notice. This morning I received a request for a BW rather than the sepia I had posted. Within 20 minutes of receiving that email (soon after it had been sent), I had posted my latest and greatest image, the BW version. So far, one person has looked at it.

I create art that I hope will be noticed, but it isn't the art that sells.

Usually what sells are pictures I took years ago. Or pictures of "things" that I think might sell.

In a gallery you would want one theme and of course hope they are unique enough to be noticed and purchased.

On this website... it's a different world. Or maybe all the same world.

Being original yes. After all who wants to be just a carbon copy of someone else?
Even if that someone else is a Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
In today's art world it's hard to be original or unlike anybody else.
If only because there are a billion different styles of art out there and chances are
good that someone else has done something the same or similar to yours.

I would say whatever you do try to do it as best as possible.
Let your photos or art stand on their own merit.
Something great or fantastic will eventually get someone's attention.

I think doing what you are passionate about shows your true creativity. It shows your connectivity to your art and therefore people want to connect to you.Every time I put my heart and soul into it...it's noticed immediately.

there is (or was anyway) a woman in this country that would swallow paint and then throw it back up on to canvas... it certainly got her noticed and people were throwing money at her for these artworks but I think the "novelty" would wear off quick.

Nicole, those would be some awful smelling paintings.

I guess one could smear painting all over the body and body paint a canvas...I would like to see it but not do it. I would also like to see some shadow art on a giant canvas of things that are controversial. I can't do it though because I have a good paying day job. I would love to do some odd artwork, but then again, the day job...and my parents are still alive. I guess I have a lot of ideas, but to get noticed by something too top shelf weird means I would have to face decent folks with shame. I probably don't want to do that, but I like it when others do it. I think all artists should do something that represents wild for that artist...push the boundaries just a little.

Standing naked in front of the courthouse will get you noticed. I'm not particularly interested in getting noticed - I'd like my work to get noticed. I'd much rather do some "perfect" quality work - say like Michelangelo's Pieta than a Warhol soup can.

Dan, I would have agreed with you 7 years ago, but now it really doesn't matter how unique you are trying to sell online unless you learn SEO and other things to be seen. It can happen, but the unique work itself will not do much.

Yo Pedro,

It is far more than a loss of $90k.

Western society is crumbling.

dave

Roy,

I have that shot of you in front of the court house. I am expecting $90k in small unmarked bills.

Or else......

Dave

my favorite was the lady that crocheted that thing while she funneled the yarn through her labia. ew.. I was thinking of snot art, or poor some acrylic paint on a canvas and get my dog to poop on it. Maybe Ill just poor some acrylic on a canvas and roll my face on it. "facerolling" art. Paint something with your feet and call it fetish art. Watch someone will use that idea. Just ask me and Ill give you some ideas. Its just the right time of night, you know, before my medication kicks in. Or.. you can just ignore me..

Maybe it is worth to try to paint another Mona Lisa level painting. Just plain painting of about the same level. Nothing special, no need to swallow paint or to "facerolling". )

hmm....interesting...i like it