Right here’s one thing to recollect, the following time somebody criticises your artwork or work.
Andy Warhol’s signature work, Campbell’s Soup Cans, hangs on the partitions of New York’s Museum of Trendy Artwork. It’s their most prized possession.
They have been gifted the artwork by Warhol’s buddy Irving Blum, paying him simply $15MILLION for it — that was 10% of it’s $150MILLION valuation. It’s value even extra right now!
Evaluate that, with the rejection letter that very same museum despatched Andy Warhol, when he supplied one among is artworks to the museum at no cost.
Andy Warhol’s rejection letter
Pricey Mr. Warhol,
Final week our Committee on the Museum Collections held its first assembly of the autumn season and had an opportunity to check your drawing entitled Shoe which you so generously supplied as a present to the Museum.
I remorse that I need to report back to you that the Committee determined, after cautious consideration, that they ought to not settle for it for our Assortment.
Let me clarify that due to our severely restricted gallery and space for storing we should flip down many presents supplied, since we really feel it isn’t honest to just accept as a present a piece which can be proven solely occasionally.
Nonetheless, the Committee has requested me to move on to you their thanks in your beneficiant expression of curiosity in our Assortment.
Sincerely,
Alfred H. Barr, Jr
Director of the Museum Collections
P.S. The drawing could also be picked up from the Museum at your comfort.
The letter has been confirmed by MOMA to be genuine.
Why such an about flip?
Andy Warhol’s artwork was simply as superb when The Museum of Trendy Artwork requested him to take it away, because it was once they have been ready to pay thousands and thousands for it. What modified was public notion of Warhol’s work. That shift occurred as a result of he saved creating superb work. He carried on, whatever the rejection and abuse. Ultimately, others have been capable of see what Warhol knew all alongside.
Had Warhol allowed the rejection to cease him from creating, the world would have been robbed of one among its most influential artists.
Not solely is rejection to be anticipated, it’s virtually all the time what occurs when folks produce nice artwork.
In different phrases, the rejection that so many artists worry, is an inevitable a part of creating nice work. When there’s no rejection and no criticism, it means your artwork is predictable. It means you’re colouring between the traces.
Embrace rejection and see it for what it’s
By no means let rejection or criticism stand between you and your artwork. In case you consider in what you’re doing, do it. If YOU see the worth of your work, carry on creating.
By no means, ever enable the opinion of one other, to cease you from creating your artwork.
