Art collectors have a role in discovering new artists and new artistic talent.
Some art collectors collect the works of well-known artists for aesthetic purposes and/or for investments.
Other art collectors are interested in collecting the works of new artists.
Let's say you're an art collector interested in the works of Latino artists, like Cheech Marin, for example.
No doubt Cheech Marin collects the works of Latino artists who are well-known artists to the general public, some perhaps well-known only among Latinos, and others new and unknown artists.
There are others who collect specific types of art, like collages, abstracts, and/or the work of specific ethnic groups. There are also ecclectic art collectors who find the works of artists that they like according to their own sensibilities of great art and/or just art according to their own tastes.
Art collectors have their reasons for collecting art.
Art collectors can also discover and define new art forms, such as those who recognize quilts and quilt-making as not just a craft but an art, and put quilts in their museums.
Also, there are art collectors who collect the innovative postmodern art that most people don't even consider art, but these art collectors consider art, and by collecting this art, they help to discover new artists.
By buying this art, these art collectors help to support the works of new artists, whether those new artists are from Paris, from a small Southern Alabama town, from a Latino community, and/or from an international online artist community.
Art collectors can also collect innovative online art sold at Yessy.com and other online art galleries.
You can collect original art works or art prints and art posters.
For those interested in collecting art for investment purposes there is no guarantee that you an make money with this art, unless you collect it and then resale it at your own gallery, online or offline, and/or unless you set up a museum and charge a fee for people to go to the museum. You can also purchase the rights to turn the art into postcards, posters that you can resell. You can also resale the art at flea markets, garage and yard sells. Otherwise, with investment art there is no guarantee of sales or resales.
You principle motive for collecting new art should be because you think these new artists are great new artists and you want to be supportive of them and help them to continue their art careers by supporting financially and aesthetically.
If you and they can make money from their art, and this is a mutual interest, then this is very good.
