With the elections coming into full swing I think that there is definitely a bunch of lies that are going to be told. What is funny is that the majority of the voting public don't ever seem to catch on. They watch the news, listen to the reports on what candidate stands for whet, they hear the speeches, and get the emails. Then once the election is over the public starts complaining to each other about oil prices, immigration, taxes, and anything else that seems to peeve them about the decisions the candidates are not doing or are doing.




They complain for 4 years, then when the election comes again they fall for the same rhetoric.  You see the politicians have it figured out. They can just do whatever they want and it is not going to matter. There are no checks and balances once they are elected. The bribes kick in, the ego goes on a rampage and the whole thing starts all over again. They are a prima donna.

So what does this have to do with the prima donna art buyer? What is a prima donna? According to answers.com It is a person who considers himself or herself much more important than others, has high expectations of others and becomes angry when their standards or demands are not met.

So lets move on. What is a major problem today is that art buyers, the really big ones at least, take on this attitude of the politician. They gallivant around as though they were elected to be the deciders of what should be bought and what should not. Some claim to be for the artists, all the artists, but yet they decide on a whim to drop tens of thousands of dollars if not millions sometimes on art that really is passé that they don't even like. Why? Well because it is priced and they heard in a social circle that their counterpart has one too.It is not creative, not technically difficult, just a name.

So what happens is they spend this money on a piece that is "famous" get it home and then talk about it as if it is some piece of garbage. I was listening to a prima donna one day telling me they had an original Rembrandt sketch on the wall at home.  I didn't really believe him, although he was wealthy enough to have many pieces as such. I will not name them as they are a prominent figure in my local community he was saying it was just so so, in fact it was such a poor monologue about it I cant even remember what it was! Regardless, as we chatted over a glass of wine about the art he kept throwing a number around about how much he purchased it for a few years back. But in the same breath he was saying how un impressed he was with it. So I asked him, "then why did you buy it?" He gave me a look like how could he NOT buy it. 

Example of a Rembrandt Sketch.

So it appears that his standards were not met on this investment. So I showed him some of my works. And you know what? He loved them. He talked about them to me as though he was going to do everything in his power to procure my best pieces. He arranged a private showing, picked out three he wanted, and set up the purchase. I was in the midst of framing them when I got a call. It was his wife. She informed me that they had decided to invest the money elsewhere on guess what? Another Rembrandt. Well by no means was the price of my three pieces anywhere near what one Rembrandt would have cost in a thousand years, but they needed those few thousand dollars to be sure to "seal the deal" as they put it.

So I started thinking. Are art buyers like politicians? Well this one seemed to be. I heard how everything (the print) was screwed up. How he wanted to change things in my favor (buying my pieces), and then once it came to crunch time, it was all a big bag of wind. Empty promises.

So as I put those pieces back in storage I knew, that in a few years another politician would come along, during another election and make a few more promises, and artists like me would jump on the campaign, hoping that this time the prima donna will follow through.