Tuesday 11 June 2013

The Outside Outsider Artist and my rapid rise to obscurity.

I was listening to the radio this morning (Radio 4) and they were discussing exhibitions of Outsider Art at the Hayward Gallery and some other big gallery in London, now outsider art refers to artists who paint and do stuff because they like doing it rather than for commercial success, a bit like making things like sculpture with cardboard which commercially is doomed. Apparently they said the market for Outsider Art is rather good at present, which to me seems somewhat a contradiction in terms, but the art market is very fickle. Lets face it, looking at in the cold light of day folk are paying millions for a few pounds worth of paint a few square feet of canvas and a wooden picture frame because it has a famous signature on it when they could buy some brilliant art as good for a few hundred pounds at most or cardboard sculpture for even less.  I am it appears an Outside Outsider Artist and diary writer doomed to the dark shadows of obscurity, mocked by the masses who throw empty cardboard boxes at me (that’s lucky) and laugh HA HA HA HA in my face. I say this because I have noticed that traffic to my blog has dropped dramatically, I think Charles at GCHQ may have a hand in this, apparently he is in a bad mood after finding out his investment of two million pounds in half a shark appears to have been a little impetuous.

The Ghost Writer made these long before that other chap did


I am off as it happens today to a local junior school later to do some art with the after school club who wish to create some themed artwork, possibly based on sixty years of the queen being the queen. Anyway right now I am doing other stuff so I will return a bit later (where did that sun go?)…….


Much Much later . . . . .


Yes I did my bit with the junior school kids, although I think they are a bit too keen I was thinking take our time draw a silhouette on thick card cut it out all very sedate after all this is a five week project, but they were sort of off like mad things and had drawn all their animal shapes in about two minutes rather than an hour. . . . . . . . . . AH DAMN that was not meant to happen, it appears these kids are like super bouncy and over enthusiastic, I don’t think that ever happened to me but then cyberspace is a far more cynical world. After all here in cyberspace there is an old saying Walls Have Ears…… (Hello Charles and Quentin). 

12 comments:

  1. I have noticed my traffic is down as well. I didn't think it was possible to get worse than it already is but Obscurity has nothing on me. hahahaha.

    I love your art work. I am always massively impressed by anyone who has a talent and yours is proper talent.

    Like most artists you will probably only get famous when you die, which is a bit rubbish because you wont be around to enjoy the fame and money and WAGS and what not.

    I hope that's not the case, because if you die then there won't be anybody reading my nonsense. hahahahah(sobsob)hahahahahaha.

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    1. It is becoming clear that there is a world plot against Custard Cream eaters.

      Thanks for the compliment about the artwork, it will be just my luck that someone will make loads of money out of my things after my death. However I now plan to ensure that they are all made badly so they fall apart in a short time, that way I will scupper their plans.

      I am hanging in there and still managing to post something on the blog daily about my life and the universe I feel it is important even if I have only a handful of reads, OK maybe six.

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    2. I think you have told me before that it's not about the numbers etc etc ( I added the etc's because i can't remember the rest of it - hahaha - but you know what i mean)
      right, off to clean the shower block and then to bed. It's been a day and half and then some! :)

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    3. I will say it is still a little disheartening when page view numbers fall through the floor as they appear to have done in recent days.

      It sounds like you are having a fun time Mr H I hope the punters are being good and not messing up you showers with soggy biscuits.

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  2. Okay, let's sort this out. My human friend, ye shall rise from the depths of obscurity and your fame and ability to string sentences together without the usage of string, are duly noted.

    I know, good human, your art's in the right place. And thus, being such a wonderful dog, I now take the liberty of sharing your pawst, sorry, post! :)

    Pawsitive wishes,

    Penny the Jack Russell dog and modest internet superstar!

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    1. It's OK Penny the Jack Russell dog and modest internet superstar life is full of ups and downs even in cyberspace and I am aware I need to take the RUFF with the smooth . . . . .

      HAH HHAh ah ha hh ah hah ah hah ah hah ha hah ahah h hh ah ahhah ha ha ha ha

      RUFF (the man is Barking Mad) HAH HAHAHH HAHAH HAH hah ah ha hah ah ah ahhah hahah haha

      Sorry Penny I am leading you astray (LEAD) HAH HAHAHHAH HAHHAHH HAHAH HAHHAHAHHAH HAH ha

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  3. I had a fairly decent sized coLLection of various cardboards until my wife stole some for doing art work. But alas she didn't turn the cardboard into art but for utilitarian work during the painting processes, *sigh*. But there wiLL be more Cheerios boxes emptying soon and slightly later than soon.

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    1. Wife's don't see empty cardboard boxes in the same way as men do. It is one of the fundamental differences between men and women.

      To me an empty cardboard box is a myriad of exciting things waiting to escape from its simple geometric shape.

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    2. I forgot to teLL you that I like your rock on rock ... on rock picture veRy much. That reminds me that I was working on a new Fake French word today. I combined "very" and "bizarre". I think my favorite way to say it is slowly evolving as I just recently broke the "za" and "rre" apart but it is starting to sound Portuguese.

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    3. Oh, I should clarify, I didn't mean that your RoRoRoR picture was bizarre, its just that I used the word "veRy" describing the picture, and the use of veRy made me think of my earlier thought with both the veRy and the bizarre melding to-get-her.

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  4. I'm sorry that your traffic has dropped recently. Mine has too. Perhaps this war of words over confectionary is hurting us all.

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    1. I suspect that it is either folk are paranoid that Charlie at GCHQ will be watching, so everyone is avoiding the internet. Or Charlie and his mates at GCHQ are laying low till the trouble blows over, or a combo of both or as the majority of internet use in in the northern hemisphere it is a summer thing and we all go out and blink at the sun saying WHAT IS IT?

      Or (one last or) Blogger and its various manifestations for want of the correct word, have worked out a way to kill even more of the web crawlers and dodgy visitors.

      I rather think the light hearted banter of the confectionery wars if anything will help generate traffic, folk like their biscuits and a good fight.

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