Grandma Moses ( born as Anna Mary Robertson Moses) is an admired American artist that was known as one of the most newsworthy women in the 1950’s. She is also one of the greatest examples that it is never too late to start painting or anything for that matter. Grandma Moses started her painting career building as a hobby in her seventies. She created over 3500 works of art in just short thirty years. In her first years of painting, she started simply to make gifts for the neighbors, the postman and members of her family.
It was in 1938 that Louis Caldor, a fine art lover and hefty collector discovered her unique paintings traveling through Hoosick Falls. Her paintings were being shown in the window of a tiny bitty pharmacy. Mr. Caldor bought up every one of them and then drove to see Grandma Moses where he acquired all of her works she had at her home. Not long after, Grandma Moses becomes recognized by the Museum of Modern Art in a section of artworks called the Contemporary Unknown American Painters.
Grandma Moses demonstrated that anyone regardless of age can create and present their authentic envision to the world. Junior and emerging artists today should bear in mind Grandma Moses as a fine role example. If at 70 years old woman could put together 3000 paintings; then definitely somebody with more and more time ahead of them could seek to generate such a prolific amount of artworks. With the spread of the internet, artists are now given an easier and more sophisticated way to promote their works without waiting around for chance or the luck of an art collector discovering them. Artists today can now make their own luck, preserve their own slice of fame and exposure their talent by creating paintings and sharing out online.
Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) spent her last 31 years of her life doing what she loved and in that she became widely acclaimed. This is usually the best tip parents share with their young children and it would seem that it is fairly sound advice. Doing what she enjoyed, Grandma Moses became an art icon. Should Grandma Moses and her rise to fame be the groundwork for successful artistic business plan? In a way yes, if it wasn’t for her paintings being shown within her local community in the front window of a drugstore, she may have never get a chance to be discovered.
This is where more artists default; they do not expose their work to the outside world. Hobbyists, weekend painters, or even those painters that are explicitly dedicated to the artisan-ship can never move forward if they do not advertise enough their work. There may be many excuses given, but each one can be negated by the existence and the endless opportunities internet can present. With a simple digital camera, a computer and an internet connection, any artist can bear out their works online and can get critiques and even money for their works. People find a new Grandma Moses every day on the internet now and to not use this powerful opportunity is a shame.
Online art galleries are a authentic example of how an artist can bring to light their works just as Grandma Moses put her paintings in that tiny drugstore. Artists today can be discovered so much more quickly in the past and because of the internet, society is gaining a vast community of worldwide culture and art unlike anything seen in the time of Grandma Moses.
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