How to keep an art collection?

I already started writing about the fact that there are several groups of art lovers and buyers when I talked about the first steps. Today we are talking about collectors with a systematic approach. Or rather, about their methods. Now I have identified 2 ways: - collection as an art; - collection as a study. The second one is now closer to me, if possible, comprehension and description. Research is not even about the method of forming a collection, but about the way of knowing the world. It's a satisfaction of curiosity. Why so? How does it work? What if otherwise? What happened, which led to X? All this can be expressed in the art collection. Remember I wrote about iconology? This is one of the methods of cognition. In this case, images. How was Fortune depicted by artists (in the broadest sense) of different eras and directions and how does its representation change? Are there any common patterns and details? The same applies to those collections that are a slice of some era. For example, in the Soviet 60s. Or a cultural slice of someplace. So, I recently met a collector who collects works by artists living or being in a certain area. You can explore the technique - writing style or working with some material. These methods do not come immediately. I haven't met a collector yet who knew exactly what his entire collection would be about from his first purchase. Appetite comes while eating, and interest in some topics comes in the process of buying art objects. For example, I want to collect a collection about total colour. Vivid examples - blue Klein or Rothko's canvases. I'm an absolute fan of dense colour. Even black and white films are difficult for me (by the way, this week I will show an exhibition about the colour I was on the weekend) and grey winter in Moscow. Any art consultant or gallery owner will say that a conscious collector who follows such a research method will "pull up" any art critic in his topic. To be honest, I'm even afraid of talking to those who explore some era or one artist. I won't be able to speak at the same level) But! This will be a challenge to delve into a certain topic. Such (research) collections can also be protected by scientific degrees. Provided that the collector has time to write a large text. It's a matter of priorities, of course. About the collection as an art - next time.

Protey Temen, 2021