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Sports Art as an Investment

Guest post by: Barbara Garro

Article Overview: Sports art has been around from the beginning, unlike landscape painting as a genre, which came much later. Sports art includes all of the sporting animals. Some of the most beautiful and exciting art is sports art, lots of action, movement and solid technique.

Sports Art as an Investment

Coming from Saratoga Springs, New York, one of the premier sports art cities in America and home of the National Racing Museum, I share with you thoughts on buying sports art.

The investment potential of sports art is a highly polarized issue. Among the mainstream fine arts community, sports art has a vanity stigma often articulated as "pompous asses on horses asses." This frustrates sports artists. After all, who would dare question whether a work by George Stubbs (1724-1806) would be a good investment today? Still, how could people know back in his lifetime that he would be one of the few surviving master artists? By 2002, Stubbs' work has appreciated over time and he now holds an undisputed distinction as one of the greatest animal painters that ever lived and the father of sports art.

Florida artist, Anthony M. Alonso has painted the rich and famous among the equine community including the late Queen Mother of England and her daughter, the current Queen of England. Alonso expresses his disappointment, "I am classified as a fine artist when I do portraits. When I started painting sports art, I ran into the stigma, even from fellow artists."

In technique, sports is a most difficult art form that includes animals, people and landscape. Still, many critics look at sporting art with disdain while sports art enthusiasts pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire original sports art paintings. One by one, as collectors see beyond the sports art stigma, equine artists are gaining respect as fine artists.

What's most important for art buyers to understand is that they buy a work of art and the future marketability of its artist's work. An artist and his or her body of work defy separation. Who an artist is, as both artist and individual, infuses the spirit into the work, its soul. As Nietzsche observed, "art masters the creative instinct of forms and ecstasy..."

Alonso says, "My paintings are heart and soul. The soul, the spirit, and the passion are what give the painting its value. If people respond to them, they're responding to me. We're only visiting this earth and then we're gone, but these paintings will live on, and I am extremely pleased about that."

Another vitally important aspect of buying art is having fun buying and living with your art. Caught up in the color and excitement of the thoroughbred racing scene, sports art investors are among the happiest investors. They buy beautiful paintings that enrich their lives with memories of good times. The challenge is panning the plethora of paintings to buy tomorrow's visual gold and prosper their progeny.

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