Something New in Art…

Many years ago, when I was about 19 years old, I decided on art as a professional career, and with the help of Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning and others, I did rather well, with a few sales in the six-figure numbers, although just barely squeaking by on that measure.

My average softball-sized bronze sculpture went for about $350 at first, in the sixties, then gradually topping off in the $22,000.00 range in the 1980s for my larger and more complex — and therefore more expensive at the foundry — bronze sculptures, usually with onyx bases. Continue reading

Collectible Chocolate Tins

Front section with handpainted angel, Double Chocolate

Sure, it’s outdated by a few months, but it’s still drinkable, but wait — it’s a collectible, so you wouldn’t want to drink this any more than you’d drink an ultra-rare million-dollar wine, although there are some very insecure billionaires who WOULD drink a million-dollar bottle, even if it tasted like vinegar, and in general, as rare wines go, it would.

Wine improves with age, and then doesn’t. Chocolate improves with age and is just as good a hundred years from now as it is right now today, as is, but like I said, it’s a collectible, and that means “leave it alone”. Continue reading

Art is Money

HUGE Hand-Painted Toulouse-Lautrec Apres, oil on canvas, $12,500.00

Art is money. It’s exactly like money and, if you handle it commercially without sentimentality, it trades fast & easy.

Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate, Commodities and now, Crypto-Currencies. That’s the standard by which we measure wealth and/or prosperity, but it’s wrong.

I just listed 422 of my own art prints on eBay, and have sold $400.00 worth on just the first day of listing them. Continue reading

RARE New York School WPA Artists

I have a very large — some would say “extensive” — collection of New York School art, mostly because I was a member of that august group of collectively arty maniacs, and I say that not only because of the massive psychotherapeutic bills they ran up, but because they were mostly free of the slavish temperament of the average New Yorker.

You’ll find a whole lot more art and artists in New York City than you’ll find in the whole rest of the country, with the possible exception of Chicago, San Francisco and of course, Las Vegas. Continue reading

I Am Not Banksy

CRYPTO USB NFT EJ Gold “Resist Depression” – Lot of 10 – $390.00

Now, about how, where, when and why you’re going to exercise and expand your spiritual talents and realizations through the combination of #Shorts, NFTs and social media.

I know, it sounds bloody unlikely that you can achieve any spiritual results in a chaotic scene like social media, and you’d be right, if we approached it straight-line, but we don’t.

I’ll give you my own examples of where to start: Continue reading

How to SELL Your ART!!!

My Artwork behind “Jazz at Lincoln Center” – Stage Setup #1 by EJ Gold

Welcome to the world of the 21st century, the home of virtual domination. You enter the world always with a Level 1 Character, but if you’re a Level 99 Player, it doesn’t matter what your powers are or what your advantages might be — you play like a 99, and that really is the difference between a Level 1 Player and a Level 99 Player, if both are in Level 1 Chars.

The idea is to come into the world as a Level 1 Character, but then raise the char to 99 through hard work efforts and deep levels of meditation, acts of kindness and charity, and application of wisdom knowledge.

That’s not an easy order, and many are not anywhere near up to the task, which is why we keep on trying. Continue reading

The Picture is worth more than the Thing itself.

This is available as a NFT, you have but to ask, and I will mint it.

I’m lucky I have the photo of the crucifixion as it really took place, and you can own the original NFT I’ll mint for you for whatever donation you care to name, I’m easy.

I have many collectibles, but none are worth as much as their NFT would bring, even the collection  of Donner letters and photos, and the photo of me standing in front of my Pollock painting.

I can take a selfie of myself standing in front of “Guernica” and make it into a NFT and it’s a work of art in itself. Go figure, but that’s where we are, at the moment. Continue reading

Do What You Like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GGBV-M9J6w

How to get an audience? Do what you like. Exercise your taste, your judgment, your viewpoint.

Don’t try to find the path to going viral. It’s not important, and going viral doesn’t really help you. There’s nothing to which you can apply the viral video. It stands by its lonesome.

You don’t need fame, don’t need fortune and you certainly don’t need viral videos to accomplish your work-aim for this lifetime.

What you DO need is a high discipline, and that’s what I’m encouraging folks to take on, the High Discipline of NFTs and SWFTs, Nifties and Swifties. Continue reading

My USB NFT Gallery #11

CRYPTO USB NFT GorbyToken – “EJ & Jewel Show Angel Scarf – edition of 100 – Lot of 10 for $390.00

Now that we have a few of these GorbyTokens at our disposal, let’s figure out how to move these totally new things on the art market out the door.So what features do these things have?

  • PRINTABLE — Enclosed in the wallet card is a large .jpg which can be printed.
  • COLLECTIBLE — The signature and number are your guarantee of authenticity.
  • COA — The Reverse of the card carries your guarantee certificate.
  • BACKGROUND — You get FOUR full-color art artist’s history scrapbooks.

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