If you want to build your art collection, you should do so in an intelligent manner. This is so that everything you buy for your collection wouldn’t be
considered a waste of money. However, collecting art intelligibly would require you to master two things. The first is to have good research skills, and the second is the skill of collecting.
Starting On The Thought Of Collecting
Generally, as most people do, you probably know about buying art on a piece-per-piece basis, yet still may not be thinking of plans like making multiple achievements as time passes by or simply building up a collection. Although it is possible to find artworks that you like anywhere you go and get to choose from an outstanding diversity of subject matters, mediums, and price ranges, doing so can still be confusing and intimidating, especially if you’re still starting.
The following question may come to play in your mind. However, once you get these queries off your head, then you’ll get to understand the real meaning of “collection,” which is the crucial case of controlled and purposeful buying.
- How exactly do you push your way through and choose which direction to make an entrance?
- How can you relate one buy to the other?
- How should you group or organize your art?
- Are there ways of presenting it?
- How can you excellently do everything?
The Great Collections
Great collectors are extensively respected and are usually as popular as the artworks they collect, such as the Rockefeller collection, the Chrysler collection, and the Phillips Collection, to name a few. Such collectors are famous since they demonstrate a great deal of talent when choosing and organizing their art, just like the artists in making the masterpiece. Similarly, each piece of art in one great collection orders first-class attention, as well as a first-rate price not just because the piece is good, but also of the name of the company it bears.
How Great Is ‘Great’?
So how exactly do great collectors become great? Well, experts believe that it is this skill of being able to categorize specific artworks from the billions of works existing and assemble them in such a manner aiming to advance or increase others’ understanding of such particular art or art’s evolution in general.
For any kind of mature collection, the whole thing, as a group becomes greater than the value of the parts. Thus, the collector becomes accepted to be a respected authority in the matter, and outstanding cases continue until he’s the one that sets the standards, establishes the trends, and influences the future of art collecting for all. This is how meaningful and influential great art collections can be. It all starts from a single piece
of art until the whole collection itself becomes a separate artwork from its components.
The First Step To Greatness
No matter how you see your collection, whether recreational or serious, there are methods that you could use to get the most out of not only the value and quality of your art, but also your appreciation, enjoyment, and understanding of your art. Thus, you should know that your first step to greatness is being real to your tastes. If you want to be a great collector someday, then acknowledging and accepting that you like specific types of art without considering what other people say or what is popular in the market, would be the right thing to do.
Remember, in collecting, you’re making an artwork too, which is composed of different specific pieces. How you design your artwork is entirely up to you and not what other people think. So, if you will be collecting, be sure to put your heart on it!
