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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heironymous, post: 243924, member: 4819&quot;]I was hoping to stimulate such conversation.&nbsp; And thank you so much for your reply!</p><p><br /></p><p>I just love this kind of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>(If I were to have an alternative *dream career*) ~ it would be to be a curator &amp; preservationalist.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did notice that you said &quot;painting.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And, (again ~ as an artist myself), I think works on paper, silk ... prints ... whathaveyou ... (the *thinner* &quot;canvases&quot; if you will), present even more challenges in their preservation than most paintings.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question of how *temporal* a piece of art is &quot;meant to be,&quot; or how inherent it is to it&#039;s own medium, can open up a whole new can of worms in the debate over what is *valued* in &quot;ART.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I can not tell you the number of times I have confessed to strangers that &quot;I am an artist&quot; ~ only for them to immediately assume in their asking &quot;Oh? - What do you paint?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[I love drawing] ~ which I include among this medium: watercolor.&nbsp; (Works on paper).</p><p><br /></p><p>Painting: I think, is ultimately &quot;easy.&quot;&nbsp; (From my own experience &amp; perspective).&nbsp; But to lay a line of ink down on a piece of paper requires real commitment &amp; confidence in skill ... because you just can&#039;t hide it with more paint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[I&#039;ll await the backlash from other artists on this point].</p><p><br /></p><p>I DO think there are great opportunities out there for buying works on paper that are quite remarkable, and that, in the future, will hold GREAT value, if only they are preserved properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Just my own, certainly bias, observation).&nbsp; And you&#039;ll find that I am forever qualifying myself.&nbsp; I do that.&nbsp; But don&#039;t misinterpret it as a disclaimer.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I&#039;m just sayin&#039;.&quot; -lol-</p><p><br /></p><p>The definition of *painting* being the end-all &amp; be-all of &quot;art&quot; has always irked me though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shall we move on to the movement of deconstructivism now ... *?* ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[just kidding]</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s get started! ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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