[There are artistic realms · art chat] The hidden rules of the art circle!Male painter works are ten times more expensive than female painters

Author:China Well -off Time:2022.08.11

According to the British Guard Daily, a guest in the BBC documentary "Re -Calculation Art", the artist Helen Gorier, revealed her amazing discovery: a male artist's work is sold for each pound, female artist’s The work can only be sold for 10 pence. If her signature on the work, the value will fall further.

Male artist's painting ability is 10 times that of female artists? If you have heard the remarks of German artist George Barcelitz, you may think so. In an interview with the Guardian in 2015, he said, "Women are not painting well, this is a fact. The market will not lie."

George Barcelitz and his paintings.

The market may not deceive us intentionally, it does give people a good impression that male artists sell better than female artists. The most expensive painting ever -Dajolds' "Savior" -son -sold for $ 450 million, and the most expensive female artist is Georgia Oasev, its world record is 44.4 million US dollars, only the ten of "Savior" of the Lord One of them.

"Women are forgotten by gallery after pregnancy. Buying their works is considered risky because they will not loyal to their careers," George Barcelitz said.

Of course, this is an unfair comparison. Most of the time in human history, women are not allowed to engage in art like men. But even among the world's artists, Jeff Queens has maintained a record of $ 91 million, and the record of female artists maintained by Jenny Savier is only $ 12.5 million.

Da Vinci's "Savior".

In the lower reaches of the art market chain, the gap between 10: 1 still exists. The author of "Women Can't Draw" Helen Golille has studied the price of 5,000 paintings sold around the world and found that every £ 1 pound of male artists can only earn 10 pence. "This is the most shocking gender value gap in all industries," she said in BBC Radio 4's documentary "Reconstruction Art".

This is really shocking. For a period of time, female students have accounted for 70%of the students of the Academy of Art and were selected based on their results. The art world is known for its free and progressive values, but it dominates the largest salary gap in almost all industries.

Helen Golil accidentally discovered another amazing phenomenon. If he signs the name, the value of the work will rise; and if a woman's work, if the name is signed, the value of the work will decline, as if it is not known by her gender. "This is absolutely angry," Gorir said.

Jenny Savier's "PRopped" was auctioned by Sotheby's auction house for $ 12.5 million.

Let's go back to the quality of art itself. Is male artist really a better artist? Reni Adams, a professor of finance at Oxford University, decided to do experiments to verify the idea. She showed the experimental participants the paintings of five male artists and the paintings of five female artists, and asked them to identify the gender of the artist. The results showed that the probability of guessing is only 50% -this is not better than throwing coins. This is a good evidence that proves that the quality of male artists is no different from female artists, so it is not better than female artists' art.

Then Reni Adams showed a group of art collectors a painting created by artificial intelligence and randomly assigned the name of male or female artists. If the collector is told by a man, they will say that they prefer it.

Why does this phenomenon appear? Francis Morris, director of the Tate Modern Art Museum, said, "The situation of female artists is very bad because there is an unconscious collusion between markets, art history, and institutions. Everyone lacks confidence, Everyone is seeking confirmation. Moreover, tradition and history are composed of patriarchal systems. "