Right here’s one thing to recollect, the subsequent time somebody criticises your artwork or work.

Andy Warhol’s signature work, Campbell’s Soup Cans, hangs on the partitions of New York’s Museum of Fashionable Artwork. It’s their most prized possession.

They have been gifted the artwork by Warhol’s buddy Irving Blum, paying him simply $15MILLION for it — that was 10% of it’s $150MILLION valuation. It’s value even extra immediately!

Evaluate that, with the rejection letter that very same museum despatched Andy Warhol, when he supplied one in all is artworks to the museum totally free.

Andy Warhol’s rejection letter

Expensive Mr. Warhol,
Final week our Committee on the Museum Collections held its first assembly of the autumn season and had an opportunity to review your drawing entitled Shoe which you so generously supplied as a present to the Museum.
I remorse that I have to report back to you that the Committee determined, after cautious consideration, that they ought to not settle for it for our Assortment.
Let me clarify that due to our severely restricted gallery and space for storing we should flip down many presents supplied, since we really feel it isn’t honest to just accept as a present a piece which can be proven solely sometimes.
However, the Committee has requested me to move on to you their thanks on your beneficiant expression of curiosity in our Assortment.
Sincerely,
Alfred H. Barr, Jr
Director of the Museum Collections
P.S. The drawing could also be picked up from the Museum at your comfort.

The letter has been confirmed by MOMA to be genuine.

Why such an about flip?

Andy Warhol’s artwork was simply as superb when The Museum of Fashionable Artwork requested him to take it away, because it was once they have been ready to pay hundreds of thousands for it. What modified was public notion of Warhol’s work. That shift occurred as a result of he stored creating superb work. He carried on, whatever the rejection and abuse. Finally, others have been capable of see what Warhol knew all alongside.

Had Warhol allowed the rejection to cease him from creating, the world would have been robbed of one in all its most influential artists.

Not solely is rejection to be anticipated, it’s nearly all the time what occurs when folks produce nice artwork.

In different phrases, the rejection that so many artists concern, is an inevitable a part of creating nice work. When there’s no rejection and no criticism, it means your artwork is predictable. It means you’re colouring between the strains.

Embrace rejection and see it for what it’s

By no means let rejection or criticism stand between you and your artwork. For those who consider in what you’re doing, do it. If YOU see the worth of your work, carry on creating.

By no means, ever permit the opinion of one other, to cease you from creating your artwork.