A Painter's Trajectory, or Supply and Demand. Labor, production, and the art-market.

Please read this article in today's Times, on Oscar Murillo:

 Art World Places Its Bet

How do you respond to the work (watch the slide show, and look up some reviews of his shows)?

Finally, what do you think about the role the art-market plays in art production? How may it work to limit, determine, undermine, create opportunity for, allow freedom for artistic expression for, support for artist? Pros and cons

How about investors and collectors? Investors vs collectors?

Is it possible for an artist to "keep their head down" and not consider the market?
Why would the art dealer want to keep the prices down?

Explain the author's desire to communicate the artist's supposed uncomfortablilty with his quick rise. If something is wanted today, why would it not be wanted tomorrow? How can art be "good" today, but "bad" in just a few years?


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