P&L Art Fair

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Re: P&L Art Fair

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I stand by my statement.  Yes, I lived DT for three years.  Did not see that many people during any urban home tour, and as for St Pats or Tournament on Sunday, those crowds were not strollers, just falling down drinkers.
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I've been to quite a few art fairs and I'm pretty convinced it is a major industry backed by national companies. The art produced at each art fair I've been to - Plaza, Brookside, Westport, P&L, art fairs in other cities are almost all exactly the same. The type of art you will find is formulaic in each festival:

Paintings of sports memorabilia montages
Panoramic photographs of iconic structures of that city
Breathtaking colorful photos of faraway Asian countries
Paintings of southwestern landscapes
Georgia O'Keefe knock-offs
Mark Rothko knock-offs
A few Chinese paintings of storks or coy fish
Funky paintings of ironic cartoonish figures
Sprinkle in some glassware, jewelry and some vases and you've got yourself an art fair.

I just get the impression these are produced nationally, and they commission local people to sell them under the guise of "local art". This stuff looks exactly the same as art fairs I've been to in Chicago and Detroit. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, it was a really pleasant time just strolling around downtown. We got to try Gordon Biersch for the first time and really enjoyed our meal. Really cool seeing the crowds. I even ran into this guy that stalks pumpkins! Good times.
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Re: P&L Art Fair

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Georgia O'Keefe knock offs---the friend I was with almost purchased a ceramic vase thingamjig from Goddess booth until I told him it was a symbolic representation of the femal genitalia!
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That turned him off?  Seems like the hidden symbolisim would offer more bang for your buck.  :D
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It was to be for his medical office(not OB-Gyn). The artist that had sculptural tropical flowers and frogs said Sat night someone stole an piece valued at $1500.00.  Didn't Cordish have enough security?
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moderne wrote: It was to be for his medical office(not OB-Gyn). The artist that had sculptural tropical flowers and frogs said Sat night someone stole an piece valued at $1500.00.  Didn't Cordish have enough security?
we went yesterday and it appeared there were plenty of uniformed people standing around.
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KCMax wrote: I've been to quite a few art fairs and I'm pretty convinced it is a major industry backed by national companies. The art produced at each art fair I've been to - Plaza, Brookside, Westport, P&L, art fairs in other cities are almost all exactly the same. The type of art you will find is formulaic in each festival:

Paintings of sports memorabilia montages
Panoramic photographs of iconic structures of that city
Breathtaking colorful photos of faraway Asian countries
Paintings of southwestern landscapes
Georgia O'Keefe knock-offs
Mark Rothko knock-offs
A few Chinese paintings of storks or coy fish
Funky paintings of ironic cartoonish figures
Sprinkle in some glassware, jewelry and some vases and you've got yourself an art fair.

I just get the impression these are produced nationally, and they commission local people to sell them under the guise of "local art". This stuff looks exactly the same as art fairs I've been to in Chicago and Detroit. Maybe I'm wrong.
Yes, you are wrong. I know several people whose main income comes from doing this art fair circuit and they make their stuff themselves. A lot of it all looks kind of the same, because that what sells. It is a business.
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the dude selling the glass sculpture objects over by Bristol sold a sail-boat looking sculpture, waited about 10 minutes for the buyer to hopefully have cleared out of the area and then reached into a box and pulled out an almost exact replica of it  :lol:
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moderne wrote: Georgia O'Keefe knock offs---the friend I was with almost purchased a ceramic vase thingamjig from Goddess booth until I told him it was a symbolic representation of the femal genitalia!
What a puss.
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KCMax wrote: I've been to quite a few art fairs and I'm pretty convinced it is a major industry backed by national companies. The art produced at each art fair I've been to - Plaza, Brookside, Westport, P&L, art fairs in other cities are almost all exactly the same. The type of art you will find is formulaic in each festival:

Paintings of sports memorabilia montages
Panoramic photographs of iconic structures of that city
Breathtaking colorful photos of faraway Asian countries
Paintings of southwestern landscapes
Georgia O'Keefe knock-offs
Mark Rothko knock-offs
A few Chinese paintings of storks or coy fish

Funky paintings of ironic cartoonish figures
Sprinkle in some glassware, jewelry and some vases and you've got yourself an art fair.

I just get the impression these are produced nationally, and they commission local people to sell them under the guise of "local art". This stuff looks exactly the same as art fairs I've been to in Chicago and Detroit. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, it was a really pleasant time just strolling around downtown. We got to try Gordon Biersch for the first time and really enjoyed our meal. Really cool seeing the crowds. I even ran into this guy that stalks pumpkins! Good times.
You're going to have to put a little more effort into it.  We've picked up 6-8 nice works in the past 10 years. 
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