I’ve discussed art and collecting with other people who own and acquire art and after meeting many different collectors, there may be three primary types of art collection experiences.
The Private Collector
A “Private Collectors’” art passions are very personal to them. Private Collectors acquire their art through dealers and prefer more intimate art events to public showings. Their art is a discrete extension of their life that they rarely share outside of their home. This collector likely will not wish to Socialize their art on Yallery. If this collector becomes a member of Yallery, they may not make any of their artworks publicly viewable by others.
The Social Collector
“Social Collectors” enjoy sharing their art with everyone around them. Social Collectors bring their art into every environment they inhabit — work, home, friend’s homes, everywhere. Social Collectors visit a lot of galleries and attend show openings. Art appreciation is a very public extension of who they are as a person. Social Collectors will share a majority of their collection with the world through Yallery — looking forward to linking to the artists they collect and contextualizing their collections with artists and other collectors.
The Accidental Collector
“Accidental Collectors” possess art — sometimes a lot of art — and they don’t know anything about the art other than from who or where they acquired it. These art owners have never thought of themselves as collectors and may consider the art they own to be just another possession. The origin of artworks owned by Accidental Collectors be vacations, gifts or a spontaneous decorating-related purchase. Another common source of unidentified art is inheritance. We at Yallery believe that the Accidental Collector will be able to Socialize their art to identify artists, learn information concerning the provenance of their art and eventually the value, both monitary and historic.
We hope that Social Collectors and Accidental Collectors will enjoy the a range of opportunities Yallery provides them to socialize their art.
Art Hosting
The primary “socialization” activity on Yallery is the hosting itself. Yallery’s Collector “Mosaic” enables a Collector to share their entire art collection with friends, family and the world.
Art Interlinking
The next major “socialization” activity on Yallery is art “Interlinking”. Interlinking is how Yallery connects Collectors and Artists. The artworks displayed in an Artist member’s “Mosaic” (the gallery display area on a Yallery Public Dashboard) are “virtual” representations of art that may be in an artist’s own inventory, reside in collections, be consigned to galleries or loaned to shows. Artworks in a Collector member’s “Mosaic” are actual artworks that are possessed by the collector.
Artwork Interlinking provides Collectors and their collections with a path into and out of an artist’s body of work. When multiple collectors have interlinked works within an artist’s Catalogue, this creates a context greater than any single relationship. Collectors can use their link into Artists’ Catalogues Raisonné to locate “lost works”, reference and connect with other collectors interlinked with the artist. Collectors may reference the collections of collectors with mutual taste and interest in the search to learn about new artists.
Collector Narratives
Collectors may publish a textual narrative to every artwork they possess. Collector Narratives are published within the Collector’s “Art Info Page”.
Artist Narratives
Artists may publish text, audio or video narratives for each artwork they create. These narratives transfer to the Collector’s “Art Info Page” if they possess the artwork.
Artwork Comments
Every Artwork on Yallery may feature a comment stream, where members can discuss the artwork.
Favorites
All members have the ability to add the Public Dashboards of other members and individual artworks to their personal “Favorites” list.
Detail Images
Premium members may add up to five detail images to each artwork. Detail images help people appreciate the finer details in an artwork or in cases where an artwork’s provenance is unknown, or an artist’s name unknown, multiple images may assist in identification.
Exclusive Forum
Premium members also receive their own personal discussion Forum. Members may use this resource as they see fit.
Personal Calendar
Collectors may subscribe to the Event Calendars of Artist and Gallery members. The Personal Calendar provides members with a single interface into infinite events.
Identity
Although a Collector may wish to share every detail about their art collection with the world, they may not wish to be personally identified or linked to the collection. Yallery provides every member with a sliding scale of “Location” (Country only, State/Prov + Country, or City + State/Prov + Country) and “Identification” (Member name, Real Name, Organization Name).
The Future
There are other Collector-directed features coming as we implement Yallery’s Beta plan. Stay tuned.
