"I hoped to keep this secret a little longer, because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience! It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name… And to those who have asked for a sequel, Robert fully intends to keep writing the series, although he will probably continue to turn down personal appearances." J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling’s experience with her pseudonymous author says
something else to me about the commercial side of painting.
One of the things that galleries look for is a recognizable
and consistent painterly voice. Often this means that if a gallery brings an
artist in as a figure painter, they want the artist to continue painting
figures—and these in the manner they’ve come to recognize. This all makes sense
from a marketing point of view.
But it can be death to art. So much about art making is
playful and exploratory.
So, whether you change your name or not, it’s crucial for the
painter to paint as if she is free
of the demands of her painterly identity.
If painting isn’t at least partly about freedom and
breathing in the big, spacious, open world, it isn’t worth much.
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