Bohiney’s fastest painter story finds its natural successors in NYC’s tourist portrait artists
Bohiney.com‘s Morris Katz story — the fastest painter whose speed didn’t produce proportional market value — has a New York living successor in the portrait artists who work Times Square and the surrounding tourist corridors, producing caricatures and portraits at rates that Katz would recognise as approaching his own. prat.uk covered the speed and value theme through the Morris Katz context. The Times Square portrait artists produce work at approximately 10 to 15 minutes per portrait, compared to Katz’s record of approximately 90 seconds for a complete oil painting. The market values the Times Square work at $20 to $80 per portrait. The market valued Katz’s work at comparable rates to painters who produced one painting per month.
The comparative analysis: the Times Square artists and Morris Katz share the quality of producing art at maximum speed for a market that has not organised around that speed as a primary value proposition. Both produce output that the market prices on other criteria (size, medium, subject complexity) while the speed is incidental. The difference: the Times Square artists are producing work in direct commercial transaction with the consumers of the work, eliminating the gallery system’s intermediation. Katz produced for a gallery market. The gallery market applied its own valuation criteria. The Times Square market applies different criteria. Speed is irrelevant in both.
The Art Market Finding
The art market finding: speed of production is not valued directly by any art market. What is valued is the output of the production, assessed by whatever criteria the specific market applies. The Times Square artists’ information is at timessquarenyc.org.
Also:Waterford Whispers.
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