/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3785185
Oh it's a mad house for art collectors. A true fucking mad house.
I've collected bullion. Easy? Sure, have money!
I've collected guns. Easy? Sure, have money!
I've collected gems. Easy? Eghh it's a little challenging to make sure that the stones aren't heated or glass filled, but it's possible if you look at each specimen with a telescope, so yes, it's ok.

But art collecting...art collecting you must know your pieces. You must know your provinence. You must know what detail to look for. You must be able to look at something and its price and know "is this even possible logically?" Hell, there is an art gallery that claims to have provinence on every piece they sell. Ranging from $1000 to $100,000 and even higher. However, do they truly know what they have is even real? Do you trust them to know what is real? Do you trust them to care enough about your best interest and not sell you a fake painting worth thousands?

Art buying/collecting is the most painful buying there is. It's almost gambling if you are paying for luxury art because you have to know your shit to even buy in the first place, lest you collect all this fake bullshit and you are left with a dwindling wallet.

This is why I am not ashamed to buy student art. If I know the student in real life, and they sell art, AND they make beautiful things. Guess what? I'm going to take a picture of them with the art piece that they personally sell me, and I am going to have them make me a certification. That way I am at peace knowing what I have may not be of wealth, but is at least unique.