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RE: Want to make art your career? 🎨 Why style is SUPER important!
Make your signature a letter or piled on letters like those old Japanese wood block prints. Look at your art and name it the first thing that comes to mind or don’t name it. Not all artworks are titled. Also, if you use geometric shapes name your art based on the geometric shapes you see. I don’t know, just an idea. Anyhow, good post.
Thank you! I'll use ancient runic writing i think!
That's not necessarily the best idea, you want people to remember your name. Your signature should be your name. Your logo can be runic writing.
Here's why work should be signed and titled - imagine 2 identical artworks next to each other at a gallery. One has a title, and a signature. The other, has neither. Which piece is worth more? The one with the title and signature, it can give the viewer/collector more information. It's a lot easier to search up an artist if you know their name right? It might be tempting to think the one without the information is more mysterious or something - but, it's not. In the art business, it's like buying stock in a mystery company - it just doesn't really happen. UNLESS - you've spent years working in a signature style.
But even then - unsigned work can only be sold at auction or by a serious gallery as "attributed to ______" unless there's other undeniable proof (called "provenance") like a picture of the artist in his/her studio creating it - which means it's a more risky investment. Basic lesson is long term - you want to make your art attractive to art collectors, who are almost always really secretly art investors. Art investors love supporting artists, they get a good feeling from it that they can never get from buying a stock or a bar of gold. They are real art lovers too, just, discerning ones.
Great idea! When I said The way Japanese signed their wood block prints, I didn’t mean to use Japanese letters I meant the style.