Post #414034 by Gromit_Fan on Sat, Oct 18, 2008 7:19 AM

Wow, taking me out of context.

I buy what I like, too. It just doesn't happen to be what you like.

I clearly am not buying with hopes of making a buck and if you read
my other posts you'd understand that. I would have already sold that
GL print for three times what I paid for it, if that were true.

If you care about owning an original one of a kind,
("the pieces i own are mine only.")
then I can see why you buy what you buy.
Rarity of a piece is not a factor
for me in my purchasing decisions, and
I actually LIKE that 200 other Shag collectors have the same piece.

I love that sushiman got his "Raft of the Medusa,"
a print I also own, and I want to see how he framed it,
and it is fun to talk about the those things
about the piece in the same manner folks enjoy talking about
a movie they both saw over the weekend.

I could not care less how many other people own it,
which clearly you do.

And my Shag prints will never be "worthless posters" (your words)
to me so long as I enjoy them as they are displayed on my walls,
which has nothing to do with their monetary worth or their edition sizes.

You came in here and degraded Shag's prints,
as overpriced "posters."
("it's a print! it's just a poster! they should cost about $20 each!")

Well, the market value of prints is part of the dialog of collecting
fine art prints, and it can be fun to see a print one owns go up in value.
I think of it as being akin to enjoying the fact that a movie you really
like has a good run at the box office making lots of money.

I know art dealers that sell Warhol serigraphs for $50,000 or more.
But, again, according to you, that should sell for $20 because it
is "just a print!".

Technically, most of Shag's prints are NOT posters. They are graphics.
Yes, there is a difference.

Nearly all are printed on thick archival 100% cotton rag,
using fad-resistant, archival grade pigments,
and the process is very expensive, and then
when one is printing 200 in the edition instead of 2000,
the cost per print to the publisher and artist goes up significantly.

Finally, I don't quite know why someone would come into a
thread of Shag art collectors and then crap on
the price his work, and the fine art of printmaking,
and then expect a warm response.

On 2008-10-17 23:10, kingstiedye wrote:
oh yeah, as to the value of my art, i don't give a shit. i buy what i like from people i like. i'm not buying prints hoping i can make a buck someday. the pieces i own are mine only. 200 other people don't have the same thing hanging on their walls.

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[ Edited by: Gromit_Fan 2008-10-18 08:05 ]