HOW TO INVEST IN ZIMBABWEAN ART?

Art investment is a risk business.The ability to predict rarity and being able to foresee fashion changes.What may be good may change to be rubbish in future.
WHAT TO AVOID WHEN BUYING ART ITEMS?:
♦Don't buy a work of art just because a gallery is promoting it or the artist.
♦Don't buy a second imitation of a familiar piece.
♦Don't buy a work of art simply because the artist recently won a prize.
♦Don't buy a piece because the friends or neighbours bought one like it. And try to avoid buying at first sight.
WHAT TO DO?:
♥Buy the item that enhence the value of other items in life.♥A piece that fits your environment for example in a room,passage ,garden or a square.
♥A  sculpture or painting can create harmonies in bedrooms, offices,public room anywhere, provided it is the right piece for the right place.
♥Be considerate of weight and durability.Wood,hard stone and metal are safer than soft stone.In colours bright colours cheer up the environment ,however they make the room smaller.
♥Soft colours sooth and have sense of space.
The choice is yours to choose a piece that will dominate or that will harmonise easily and make sure it has a strong solid base.
THE POWER OF THE THEME:Zimbabwean art tends to be abstract but with African dimension of universal themes.Abstract themes is making something from one 's mind and universal themes like dancing,spirit forms, love relationships hopefully have something to say to everyone and to anything in African context.Older people usually like peaceful simple forms or curves and some aroused by the need for simulation.
The good piece communicate something new to you every time you look at it.

THE KNOWLEDGE OF AN ARTIST. The information of an Artist do three things:
♦It enhence your personal enjoyment just because you have the background of the creator and the circumstances which build upto existence.
♦Able to make evaluations Artist and Art movement that will better placed discuss their pieces together with others from other countries.
♦You able to have assessment of Art's originality only after better placed in individual's work in contest for your friends and associates.
This will build mutual relationship with the collector.Artists from different countries share ideas.
The enthusiasms grows and then decides to have analysis of a ZIMBABWEAN ART. so that you have much more than a buyer or an investor.You may encouraged creative employment and helped many people in this drought-ridden region.