THE INSPIRATION PLACE PODCAST
Miriam Schulman: What’s happening now in the world is definitely going to affect the kind of art that people want to consume. And by art, I’m using art in the most general way. And to be a successful artist, you have to create art that people want. That doesn’t mean you’re necessarily changing your style, but you need to be creative and in conversation with the world around you.
Speaker 2: It’s the Inspiration Place podcast with artist Miriam Schulman. Welcome to the Inspiration Place Podcast, an Art World Insider podcast for artists by an artist, where each week we go behind the scenes to uncover the perspiration and inspiration behind the art. And now your host, Miriam Schulman.
Miriam Schulman: Well hey there, it’s Miriam Schulman and welcome to the Inspiration Place. I am not in New York City. I am at a writer’s Retreat in Amelia Island, Florida, which is right near Jacksonville. I actually spent eight years of my childhood in Florida, and so the Spanish moss reminds me of my childhood. So I’m feeling at home here. I love the warm weather and I have so many ideas to share with you. So while not this retreat, which is for writers, and it’s being led by my writer coach Candice L Davis, it’s more like a writer residency, though, where we have plenty of time to write and think and relax, and they provide like the space and the community. While I’m working on my book, which you’ve been hearing about, I have not gotten a book contract yet. I already sent in my proposal to Harpercollins. I’m waiting right now to hear yes or no if they want to publish it, and if they don’t, I’ll cry a few tears. But I’ll be looking for a new publisher. It’s not a big deal. Somebody’s going to want to publish my second book. But as I’m working on the second book, and as I’m in conversation with people, I’m realizing that there is content that I have shared with you that belong in the book, and there’s content that I haven’t shared with you yet that you need to know.
Miriam Schulman: One of the questions somebody asked me, her name is Jasmine. I don’t know her last name. I’ll try to link her in the show notes. She’s not an artist and she’s not a business coach either. She helps activists with their message, which is very much needed right now, as you can imagine. She’s in a very vulnerable place. But anyway, Jasmine was asking me, what kind of art do people want right now? And I’m not sure if that’s the way she asked it, but that’s the way I chose to answer it. I said, like, you know, what is it that people are going to want to consume? I did have an answer for her. So there is art that is evergreen art that people are going to want no matter what. Pet portraits. Family portraits. There are styles of art that people will appreciate no matter what. There are styles that will evolve with time though, depending on what’s happening. And this is not about not being a true artist, because what I’m going to do during this episode is I’m going to share with you how art is always in conversation with the world around us. And I’m only going to focus on this century in the last one. I’m not going to go way, way back, but I want to show you how what’s happening now in the world is definitely going to affect the kind of art that people want to consume.
Miriam Schulman: And by art, I’m using art in the most general way because all art is always in conversation. Art is in conversation with fashion. It’s in conversation with world events, with politics. It’s in conversation with decor. It’s in conversation with literature. All the expressive arts are always going to be in conversation. So what I’m going to share with you is how art has responded to world events in the past, how it’s responding right now, and what I’m predicting for 2025. Okay. And to be a successful artist, you have to create art that people want, not just what you want, but what they want. That doesn’t mean you’re necessarily changing your style, but you need to be creative and in conversation with the world around you. So when we come back, I’m going to talk about the Roaring 20s and how that affected the arts. But first these words. Hey there. It’s Miriam Schulman here. So my publisher let me know that we have sold over 13,000 copies of Artpreneur, either in paperback or audio or Kindle. And I know many of you have invested in multiple versions of that. So for that, I thank you very much. However, I also know that we only have in our Mail Chimp system, 800 people tagged as having bought the book and gotten the bonus package, and there’s only 350 of you who have left some form of honest review over on Amazon.
Miriam Schulman: So that means that there is about 12,000 people out there who have not claimed the bonus package and or have not left a review of the book, and I’ve made a special bonus package just for people who have bought the book, and I don’t want you to miss out on it. And for those of you who haven’t gotten the book yet, you can see the entire bonus package. It is over at ArtpreneurBook.com. You don’t have to order the book through me. You can order it through any bookstore. If you get it from your library, though, you won’t have an order number. You can just take a picture of yourself with the book and mail it to us. If you have a receipt, you can forward us the receipt. That’s Miriam at TheInspirationPlace.net, and we’ve curated a really great bonus package for you that I don’t want you to miss out on. So first of all, it’s awakening your creative soul. I have Patti Lennon, Shireen Sahn, Emily gosh, who are all beautiful spiritual leaders. I have a branding panel featuring Whitney McNeil, India Jackson, and Jennifer Kim that you don’t want to miss out on, as well as successful artists insights from four different former Artpreneur readers and Artist Incubator members and those insights will really help you sell more art in 2025 and beyond.
Miriam Schulman: In addition, we have an art journal series, an Art Artpreneur appendix, and we want you to get your hands on all of this. And all you have to do is order the book. Now, if you’ve already ordered the book. You also can get a special thank you for leaving a review. So if you leave a review over on Amazon, just take a screenshot of it and send it our way. Miriam at TheInspirationPlace.net. If you haven’t finished reading the book, don’t let that stop you from leaving a review and getting your hands on our gift, because you can just say, hey, I’m really looking forward to reading this, or I’m enjoying it so far and we would love to send you the gift for leaving a review. The gift for leaving a review is 52 art Journal prompts. All right, my friend, so you can go to SchulmanArt.com/Amazon to leave a review, or ArtpreneurBook.com to see everything that’s included in the bonus package. And now back to the show. All right, so the Roaring 20s, the 1920s, this is right after World War one. So people had a sense of liberation. They had a sense of rebellion against traditional values during this time. And so because of those world events that affected art, we also had a period of economic prosperity. It was a booming economy.
Miriam Schulman: There was a lot of consumerism. There was a lot of leisure time. There was also, of course, prohibition. So the ban on alcohol in the US led to the rise of speakeasies, which became a place for jazz and dance styles. So let’s talk about now. So those were the big things that were happening culturally in the world. And let’s look at how that affected art. So you had the rise of jazz music. You had popularity of dances like the Charleston and the Lindy. You had the Art Deco movement, which affected art as well as design and architecture. You had the flapper, that style. So we moved out of like the Victorian and Post-victorian eras into relaxed waistlines. They were shedding their corsets. Women were cutting their hair is a very different style of look. Think of Tamara Lepik for one of the influences. A lot of the art that I love came out of the Harlem Renaissance. I talked about that on a previous Amazon live stream. Harlem Renaissance A lot of migration was happening from the south to the north to New York. And in Harlem there was a great flowering of literary arts, music and visual art and culture there. So you think of Langston Hughes, you think of zeal, you can think of Samuel Jackson, artist, and many others, Jacob Lawrence. So there was a very specific kind of art that flowered and literature that flowered, and musical style that flowered, and fashion and decor and architecture that all kind of flowered at the same time.
Miriam Schulman: Now, does that mean that if you were living in 1920, you couldn’t be a traditional oil painter and make a living? Of course not. Of course you could do that. But this was what was happening, and it’s harder to make a living when you’re going against the grain. That way it’s hard enough to be an artist and then to, like, go against the grain. That’s even harder. The artist that we consider now is, oh, these were the two artists were actually part of movements. This was the movement that was happening. Then. Let’s switch to what happened then, right after that. So right after that, when we had the depression and the crash. So now we’re looking at art such that dealt with social realism. We’re looking at Hopper, we’re looking at the Ashcan School. There’s going to be some overlaps of people who are still working in the style, like during the 20s, but things are changing now. We’re changing the style of the dress, we’re changing the style of the architecture. We’re changing different things that people are thinking about. This is also a rise of photography, documentary photography. Think about Dorothea Lange, who did the depression era photographs. Think about the migration west. Also, you can think about that author Grapes of Wrath, which, by the way, I read recently that a woman had actually written all those case studies that were in Grapes of Wrath and when he was visiting her camp.
Miriam Schulman: His name is famous Steinbeck. His name is his famous, but hers I can’t think of right now. Let me just pause this and I’m going to look it up for you. Sanora Babb interviewed people during the Dust Bowl and when Steinbeck was visiting her boss or mentor. I don’t know who it was. I don’t remember anymore. Asked her to share his notes. Let me see. I’ll get the. I’ll get the exact thing. 1938, when the refugees were fleeing the ravages of the Dust Bowl, a journalist interviewed hundreds of families gathering stories. And she even had a book Entourage, but she shared her stories with Steinbeck, and then he published Grapes of Wrath, and then her novel for random House got canceled because they said, why would anybody want to read your book after reading Grapes of Wrath? And he stole it from her. So, yeah, a little aside. I just thought you should know, especially if there’s authors listening to this. Don’t wait to publish your thing. Speed is important. Publish your story. Okay, so back to what we were talking about, the type of art that is being in that time. So we said there’s the emergence of social realism in the visual arts.
Miriam Schulman: There’s the development of swing music, there’s the growth of documentary photography, and also propaganda art and posters. That was the kind of arts happening, 30s and 40s. So you can see that we as artists are always in conversation with what’s happening in the world. Post World War two 1960s, the atomic bomb had a huge influence on the arts. World War two had a huge influence. This is like a very much a time similar to post pandemic, where people are struggling with existential questions. So this is why you had the rise of existentialism in literature, Samuel Beckett, Sartre. We have modern dance. We have Balanchine, Martha Graham, modern art. We have the abstract expressionist, de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler. We have modern design, furniture design, modern design, very simple, clean lines. So all of that was in conversation with each other and affected each other. And then that was a short like maybe a ten year period. And then pop art rose to the top. So things are always in conversation with what’s happening. Let’s jump ahead now to 9 to 2020 and seeing the art of the past four years. I’m going to spend more time with this after these words. So next I want you to hear from Kelly Phipps. She is one of my inner circle members, and she is having so much success that I wanted you to hear her wins straight from her.
Kelly Phipps: Oh, I have lots of wins. So after our last session, when we discussed how I was going to approach the potential buyer that I had for my one painting within like an hour. He messaged me on several different platforms. How much you want for the painting? By the time I actually was going to message him, I noticed it on my email that he had gone on my website and bought the paintings. He had received my first couple emails or my first email. And so I think maybe that just possibly triggered something because it was right after that that he’s like, how much do you want? Because I had a I have an image of that painting in my welcome email. So whether that just triggered because then it was like the easiest sale ever. You know, I’m using all.
Miriam Schulman: Of this as a testimonial for my podcast.
Kelly Phipps: Yes you can. So anyways, that was exciting. I’ve been adding more people to my list. I’ve had great response for my open studio that’s coming up November 29th. Have a lot of people that are committed to coming, so that’s super good. I did do my LinkedIn profile. I’ve been getting some engagement on there, so that’s cool. So those are all my wins. I had lots this week.
Miriam Schulman: We are opening applications for the Inner Circle. Right now I am running two tracks that are completely full, but because there’s such a demand for my help through the Inner Circle program, I’m opening up another cohort that’s going to begin in February. So if you want to save your spot in there, you can go to SchulmanArt.com/BIZ to find out what’s included and how you can apply and see if you qualify, I would love to help you have the most successful 2025 in your art business ever. Okay, and now back to the show. Welcome back. So now we’re going to talk about the last four years, because I think it’s going to be easier for you to see how the events that have happened in the past 4 to 5 years have impacted the arts and everything you’ve been seeing the past five years. And that will help you understand what are predicted as the trends for the next five years. Okay, so 2020 was a time where we had a global pandemic and everything shut down. So a lot of contemporary artists turned inward, and there were a lot of artists whose only source of inspiration were their own bodies. A lot of female artists used their own bodies and their art. They looked at surrealism, a lot of dystopian art. There was a lot of attention, even to art that had been made previous to 2020, but was getting more attention because of what was happening.
Miriam Schulman: So think of different kinds of surrealist art, like I would include science fiction and dystopian literature and movies like. So remember we were talking about all the arts is all part of this. And you can see, like Octavia Butler being more popular, you can see Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s work becoming so popular now. I mean, this is the way she’s always worked and she has been popular before that, but it’s like things even get more attention. People are turning to that. I see that trend continuing. I see people continuing to turn towards surrealism, dystopian fantasy, fiction, fantasy art with or without AI as a tool. So I see that trend definitely continuing into the future. Turning back to what we’ve noticed in the past four years because of the pandemic, there were a lot of outdoor performances, exhibitions and installations. I’m seeing that trend continuing. Even though the pandemic is over, you’re still seeing a lot of that. The outdoor dance performances, interactive exhibitions, a lot of more collaborative approaches to art. You saw in the last things. If you pay attention to the last Venice Biennale, not the most recent one, but the one prior to that Cecilia Biennale in Venice in 2022. So it was postponed because of the pandemic. And the curator, Cecilia Alemani, a woman curator, she decided to give voice to artists who had been underrepresented in the past, and there was a lot of women who were part of this, and even the ones that were contemporary people who are alive now.
Miriam Schulman: It was a lot of surrealist art that she was including in this Venice Biennale. A lot of artists turned inward. The name of the theme was Milk of Dreams, which is after a book by the English born Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. And I’m pretty sure I also read recently that Carrington’s sculptures are suddenly getting more value in auctions. But anyway, so her stories. She’s just like these illustrated magical tales and everything is very multidimensional multimedia. So this exhibition so I remember that’s only 22, that’s only two years ago is still kind of the avant garde of art, so things are always going to pass through the upper levels of art first before. Emerging artists. And that trend continues. I see this trend continuing. People want escapism. So this theme of the Biennale follows these themes, body representation. Because like I said. Artists were turning inward and they were also using their own bodies as inspiration, metamorphosis because people were changing. During this time, she also explored I’m talking about the Biennale, relationships with technology and relations between the body and the earth. And you’re going to see that when I. What I picked out is the five trends that are going to be very important in 2025 and beyond all have something to do with these themes. Okay, so the curator developed this concept through conversations with artists during the pandemic when she was planning the exhibition.
Miriam Schulman: Okay, now I’m just looking at the Wikipedia page and there’s two things I just learned, which I didn’t know before. Like everything I told you, I kind of remembered, but I just didn’t remember the names in the Wikipedia. She says that the essay invokes feminist activist Silvia Federici. I think that would be reaching rather than Recife, which does assume it’s that and science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, the French. So it’s probably gone or. Yeah. So I’m going to check those out later. But this is very much in what I am talking about. Let me get back to my notes. So the pandemic clearly huge influence Biennale showcasing all these themes. But let’s talk about the next major thing that happened also in 2020. This is the social justice movements and the artist response. So we see a huge rise of black figurative artists. And honestly, this trend started before the social justice movement of 2020 because we had Barack and Michelle Obama as president and first lady, and they had a huge influence on the arts as well. Choosing artists for the white House, people of color, choosing fashion designers, choosing decorators, people of color. For that, we have Kehinde Wiley, who was chosen for the official Obama portrait, as well as Amy Sherald, who was chosen for Michelle’s official portrait in the Smithsonian. And I think they had multiple portraits, actually. I don’t think I know they had multiple portraits. So there’s like the Smithsonian one, but then there’s also the one that goes in the white House.
Miriam Schulman: So and I don’t remember the artist’s name, and I’m not going to stop to look it up. But this trend had started prior to the social justice movement. Just saying everything that happens, it’s not like it just happens out of nowhere. Things start to bubble up and build and build the tension for it to happen. When we have big movements like this inside the art market, suddenly there is a response and a demand in the art world for more representation in art institutions. And there was an effort to amplify marginalized voices in the art world. There was increased funding and support for Bipoc artists and organizations. So as a result, some of the hottest artists right now are figurative artists and female artists and black female artists. So like in my book Artpreneur, I talk about Julie Mehretu. She is an Ethiopian born artist who lives in America, who is also, by the way, half Jewish. Her art sells for millions of dollars. She had a Whitney retrospective during her lifetime, which happened, I think, during the pandemic ish. I remember going with a mask on. And also just of note, she recently made a grant to the Whitney, so anybody under the age of 25 can go to the Whitney for free, which I think is fantastic. I love hearing about artists who give back. She actually does not work in a figurative style. She works in an abstract style, but she is part of that wave of interest in identity politics and identity art.
Miriam Schulman: So people wanting to collect art by black women, people wanting to collect women, abstract expressionists who maybe were overlooked, like suddenly their art is suddenly gaining in popularity, gaining in value. So that is a huge theme. I have a lot of examples of artists inside my incubator program, who are doing beautiful work, who are really leaning into their identities, and people who lean into their identities. They do very well. So we have Megan Mayberry, who does a hurricane headdresses, does beautiful headdresses that are very much embraced by the LGBTQ communities. We have Natasha Moriconi, who does figurative art. We have I’m not going to be able to name all the artists off the top of my head who are in my incubator. I’m just like, mostly I think of their art before I think of their name and their face, because that’s the way I think. But lots of beautiful examples of people who are doing well leaning into their identities. Okay. So there are also themes. And when I say themes, we’re talking art again in the broader sense, themes related to racial justice. Equity, social change. Art that addresses the pandemic experience, isolation, community resilience. I think people definitely want to leave the pandemic behind. So I wouldn’t recommend that you create art addressing the pandemic experience, but themes of isolation are still relevant. Themes of resilience very much wanted.
Miriam Schulman: There’s still going to be examples of local and community based arts initiative. Okay, so now that we’ve talked about art in the past and in the last five years and how things that have happened, you know, having a black president, how that influences the art, having a pandemic, how that influenced art. We’re going to turn now to what’s next for 2025 and beyond. But first these words. Hey, artists. So if you’re looking to build your audience in 2025, I have great news for you. I recently did an audience building workshop, and we have also made a workbook that complements it. So you have a choice of either getting the workshop with the workbook or the workbook all by itself, which is absolutely amazing. You’ll learn how to build your audience where the best platforms are for 2025, both on social media and off social media. You’ll learn all kinds of cool prompts to use AI. If you want to get help from the robots, I really help you demystify that whole process to make it simple, easy, and user friendly and in a way that still captures your own humanity and authenticity. You’re not going to want to miss out on the training and information that is in this audience building workshop, whichever way you choose to consume it, whether it’s the video form or the workbook form. To get either version, go over to SchulmanArt.com/Audience. We hope that you build the most amazing art business in 2025.
Miriam Schulman: All right. And now back to the show. Welcome back. Now I’m going to talk about the five major trends that I see for 2025 and beyond. Number five, as how I said the surrealist trend, I see that continuing fantasy, sci fi, surrealism, dystopia, all those things are going to continue to be relevant, interesting, sought after in literature, film, art, etc. with or without AI. It doesn’t matter. So since I talked a lot about that, I’m going to move on. But if you think about especially what’s happened with the very divisive politics in the US, with geopolitical wars in Israel, in Ukraine, people want to escape and surrealism, fantasy, dystopian all give us escape from reality. It gives us some form of comfort to escape. So there is escape into like a future that people like. So that’s theme number five as I count down. Theme four would be escape into the past. So this would be nostalgia based themes. I would even say micro nostalgia. So yesterday’s trends in tomorrow. So it’s not going to be like the 90s are back, but you might get a very micro trend happening. So for example, you might have leg warmers coming back, but not the way Jennifer Beals and Flashdance with the ripped sweatshirt. It’s not going to be a costume. So think about micro trends as coming back. Things can come back in a highly specific way. And so you’re going to see that I think in terms of visual artists, if you work in a more traditional medium, thinking about talking about nostalgia in your marketing messages is going to resonate with people.
Miriam Schulman: Trend number three, we saw a lot of immersive experiences happening. Yayoi Kusama is one who’s always done this really well, and this is how she rose to fame with her immersive experiences. You think about her infinity mirrors, her polka dot rooms, all those types of experiences that she puts together where people can interact with it. Hugely popular. You also saw traveling exhibitions. I didn’t go to the traveling. I went to the Yayoi ones that were in New York, like at the botanical garden. You know, again, outdoor, putting her art in outdoor spaces, as well as the one that I think it was with David Zwirner had her exhibit with the Infinity Mirrors. You’re going to see more of that from lots of artists, immersive experiences and also virtual worlds, hyper real virtual worlds. So what I was going to say before is I didn’t go to the Van Gogh Virtual World traveling exhibit. I didn’t make it to that. I’ll try to go to one of these other ones. I don’t know why, they just don’t appeal to me as much. But think about these immersive experiences on steroids. These are going to be hugely popular. Any time you can engage people with your art, it’s always going to help you succeed. I have an artist, Daniel Trollenberg, who does this very well. When he does his art booths.
Miriam Schulman: He usually has an interactive piece where people can come and paint on it. We’ve talked about how he can move people along so that they don’t spend too much time painting, and not enough time buying, but anytime you can do this sort of interactive thing, it’s great. I also had an artist, Susan Cone. We can link to her episode that we have did with her when she did the LA Art fair, the LA Art fair, or La Freeze. I forget which art fair she did in LA, but she created in her booth like kind of a tunnel that they went through in a way to interact with the art. So any way you can do something like that, It’s going to help you get more press. It’s going to help you get more publicity, and it’s going to help you engage with your collectors in a new way. That stuff is going to be hugely popular. So even if you are not a videographer, if you’re not creating the virtual world, think about ways you can engage your audience in a more immersive experience. We actually are going to start doing that with the podcast. I’ve talked to my team today about how I want to have worksheets go out for people who listen to the podcast. For the first iteration of that, we are just releasing it to people who are already on my email list. So like right after we sent out the podcast, we’re going to be sending the worksheet to those people so that they can engage with the podcast in a deeper way.
Miriam Schulman: But we’re also talking about how can we make that so you guys can opt into the worksheet? I’m assuming that in the show notes, you’re going to have this a way to get onto my website and get this worksheet. So let me just get you the number. If you go to Schulman Art slash three three, two, there will be a way for you to get the worksheet. And I kind of just now had an idea that I’m going to run by my team of how I want them to execute this. I think there’s going to be just one opt in to be on my email list, and the thank you page will probably take you to where you can get all the worksheets, something like that or something like that, or you’ll get sent the most recent worksheet or something like that. So to make it easier, because I don’t want my team to have to build a separate landing page every single time we put out a podcast. So I’ll talk to them about that. But as of the release of this podcast, there will be a way for you to get the worksheet that goes along with these trends, so you can interact with this content on a different way. And we’ll be doing that for all future releases. So again it’s episode 332. Every single episode the show notes are always SchulmanArt.com and Schulman Art is SchulmanArt.com slash number of the episode.
Miriam Schulman: And this is three three, two 332. Okey doke. Let’s go back to my notes. And I’m realizing this is probably a long episode, but I’ve been talking a long time. Okay, so we talked about counting down five fantasy, four nostalgia, three virtual worlds and immersive experience as. For theme number two as cultural mash ups. You see this a lot in design. There’s one designer who I met on this writing retreat. She’s not writing a book. She just happened to be friends with somebody who is so. But I am going to shout out her website, Wanderlust Esthetic. Com and you can also find her on Instagram as Wanderlust Esthetic. That’s her Instagram handle. And yes, she has a B in the know pop up on her website. Good for you Ashley. And let us see if her full name is on her website, which it should be. Ashley and Michelle Nelson. So I’m going to assume that her name is Ashley Nelson. Okay. And her studio is based in Mexico City. And the way she was describing what she does, I’m going to just, like, kind of skim what she talked about here. She has it right on her about page. Multidisciplinary design studio focused on a timeless elevation and beautification of spaces worldwide. Okay. Celebrates creativity in all forms. You know what? And she says, in bold embrace of contemporary trends. If I was her business coach. And if you’re listening, Ashley, and hopefully you are, what I would talk about is how you are blending different ethnic and global trends, because that is what you described to me, what you do.
Miriam Schulman: And so that’s what should be front and center in that headline. And on this about page, I’m trying to read this quickly. We diversified tools and techniques to create spaces. Objects evoke powerful emotions, provide a clear path to gratifying completion. We employ a range of methods. Rudimentary sketching. See, the thing is, is what you’re saying here, Ashley. And I don’t say this to make you feel bad, because you are clearly extremely successful and people are looking at your work. But in terms of your messaging, what you’re saying here could apply to everyone. And what I see in your design esthetic and what you communicate it to me verbally was the way you’re sourcing from all over the world. And it’s like this mashup that I’m talking about in the art and the art world that is on trend right now. That is hugely important. And that should come across in all of your messaging. Like the headline, the thing. It’s not just that you’re merging different techniques, it’s you’re blending different cultural traditions to make it contemporary new. Okay. So that is what I’m seeing a lot. It’s going to be a trend in general in the arts. Are these global mash ups okay. Now we are down to our last theme. Eco themed and sustainable art. So as environmental consciousness grows.
Miriam Schulman: Art that highlights sustainability is going to be huge. That does not mean the art itself. Although it could be needs to have sustainable practices. Daniel Schellenberg, who I mentioned earlier, that’s a huge theme in his work. He uses sand, he uses earth. But in general, you’re going to see in these trends color trends, design, decor. Art trends are wanting to go back to more earth tones, materials, mossy greens. You’re going to see a lot of mossy greens, I think, in home decor in 2025, as well as in products kind of like peach tones combined with that green, kind of like that very earthy palette look. Not the look of the 70s of the avocado green with orange, but more of a muted, dusty type of palette. You’re going to have a lot of themes that emphasize the planet’s beauty. Now, does this mean you have to do modern art? No, it does not mean that. So, for example, another client of mine, Paula Kristin, she does traditional watercolors. But sustainability of the planet is very important to her. She is capturing the beauty that may not always be available, and that is part of her message. And she’s leaning into the messaging. So artists, what I want you to hear is sometimes it’s about directing your art in a direction of one of these five major themes, but it could also be directing the message of your art. In one of these themes. I’m thinking off the top of my head of two different artists who I have one who’s Canadian and lives in Germany and the other who’s German, who lives in the US, and they both are embracing a lot of science and sci fi in their abstract art.
Miriam Schulman: So you would only really know about that in the messaging they need to lean into that messaging, because the science and the science fiction and all that stuff that they’re doing is going to help people relate to their art a lot. So I said a lot today. We’re just going to do a quick recap of all five themes. One nostalgia, two eco themes and sustainable art, three hyper real virtual worlds and immersive experiences, four cultural mashups and five fantasy, surrealism and dystopia. Like all that whole sci fi surrealism stuff. Okay, so I hope you found that helpful. Let me know in the comments of the blog or reach out to me. You can comment on YouTube or on Instagram. I’m at Schulman Art there. Or you can email me Miriam at TheInspirationPlace.net. I’d love to hear from you. What did you think of these five themes? How do you see yourself fitting in or not fitting in? I would love to hear from you. All right, my friend, thanks so much for listening. As I mentioned before, you can get the worksheet to the show notes over at SchulmanArt.com/332. I will see you same time, same place next week. Until next time, stay inspired. Bye for now.
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