For example, you can often attend various calligraphy exhibitions, visit or participate in competitions if you have nothing to do. Anyway, you should go out to play more often. In case there is any celebrity painting and calligraphy exhibition, you can ask a famous artist for an autograph and take a photo with him. This is your bragging capital in the future. Talk too much, people really think you are just like them.
Participate in various competitions. Some high-level competitions may be like sinking into the sea, but they are also the capital you can brag about: I have participated in such competitions. Maybe it's even worse to meet the kind of competition where you can get a prize to publish a book, a few prizes and trophies, and then bring back a few books you entered. After all, outsiders don't know how deep the water is here.
Let me tell a story about a painter who fought back when he was not famous. In the 1970s, in a small mountain village in Kongtong Township, Pingliang City, Gansu Province, there was a young man named Jiang who loved painting and always dreamed of becoming a painter. However, the family is poor, and a cowherd in a small rural ravine wants to succeed. Besides painting well, you must be famous. To put it bluntly, let others recognize your labor and value, and let the outside world know who you are.
By chance, he met famous painters from Beijing, Wang Wenfang and Jia Youfu in the Municipal Cultural Center (Wang Wenfang and Jia Youfu are professional painters from Beijing China Painting Academy). So Jiang young people humbly worshipped the two teachers as teachers, and whenever they had the opportunity, they took their own paintings to Beijing for advice. With the brand of a famous teacher, the next step is to often participate in art exhibitions. We know that artists attending art exhibitions is an important way to let the outside world know about you. In order to let others know who you are, selling yourself and packaging yourself are the ways that many unknown painters must take. Jiang Zhixin later worked as a professional painter in Lanzhou China Painting Academy, and is now a member of China Artists Association. His works were collected by major art galleries at home and abroad, and Jiang Zhixin Art Museum was established in Beijing.
Judging from Jiang Zhixin's story, it is really difficult for an unknown painter to sell his works. Calligraphy and painting works are works of art, similar to other ordinary commodities, that is, brand effect. Why are the works of many people in the painting and calligraphy circles sought after? Besides the fame of the painter, the main reason is the excellent works. Therefore, the reputation of people who engage in painting and calligraphy is very important. Fame is accumulated bit by bit. You will succeed as long as you work hard.
To put it bluntly, painters and calligraphers have never been a profession to make a living, and there seems to be no painter and calligrapher in 36 lines.
I think: As a painter, don't be discouraged because there is no market for your works. We should treat them with a normal heart, and persistently treat calligraphy and painting creation as an "elegance" to calm down, cultivate sentiment and improve ourselves. It is said that everything has a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. As the saying goes: "There is another village", when it will be a blockbuster and it is unknown!
Of course, as a painter, if you are atmospheric enough, you might as well make use of your strengths and make good connections. Isn't it a gain to have enough contacts?