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Message:: [QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 49279, member: 23"]In my small town (7500 residents) alone there are 20 or 30 art galleries plus "Sunday painters" who sell their work at art shows on the Village Green on weekends in the summer.  Multiply that by however many small towns there are in America.  It's not necessarily bad art - it's formula art if that helps define it for you.  It's not great art. It's not painted by masters.  It's just decorative art. If that's what you want to buy and sell, that's great because there is a market for it. However, to keep coming here and saying "Who painted this?" "What is this signature?" implies that you think it is going to be great or famous or painted by a master.  It is what it is and it ain't great art. I can go to Ikea and buy a nice chair, but it's just a chair.  It's not an Eames.  Maybe someday you'll stumble upon a piece of Great Art.  But continually filling the boards with mundane pictures that you find at the thrift is what bugs us.  I happen to be a working artist who actually went to art school, so I probably have a bit more savvy than some.  However, several of us have suggested you make an effort to educate yourself and you dismiss the idea.  If you don't want to help yourself, why would we want to continue to help you?  It's frustrating because you don't seem to have the most basic understanding of the subject, yet you keep collecting the stuff.  I simply don't comprehend.[/QUOTE]