Challenges of unprincipled art collectors

We live in a society that suddenly found itself in the art for art sake civilization. The drama began with the Zaria rebels cutting their teeth in the era of abstract expression and other modern art movements. Gradually a small circle of art critic began and by the mid-80s the S.N.A Exhibitions has drawn to itself a class of art collectors.

Many people who suddenly find themselves among societies, the ones that have acquired large amounts of money, find themselves wanting to collect art. But they decide to collect art to be wrong reasons. They decide to collect art to be noticed, to be a part of the art collector crowd, and to be among the wealthy art collectors.

Many of those collects don’t know much about art; in fact their collecting is based more on a need to be noticed by other, rather than any real love or knowledge of art. The only problem with this type of art collecting is that you need to continually buy artwork to be noticed.

Modern art has truly been affected by the patronage of these collectors. Painters who attract the attention of any of these collectors achieve instant recognition they look for. These patrons by contemporary art from new styles and movements, but the truth is the quality of the work itself become irrelevant, and it becomes an issue of “who’s buying what?” it seems Hollywood has also hit the art market of today.