The Harvest,1915, by Zinaida Serebriakova. Image via wikipedia.org.
Painter Zinaida Serebriakova. Image via art-portrait.livejournal.com.
The Shoots of Autumn Crops, 1907, by Zinaida Serebriakova. Image via wikipedia.org.
Veranda in Spring, 1899, by Zinaida Serebriakova. Image via wikipedia.org.
Most people have had the experience of encountering a song, a movie, or a book that they didn’t like, only to rediscover it later and wonder, “What was I thinking? I love this!”
An artist would do well to keep this phenomenon in mind as she listens to responses from others and filters those responses through her intuition. Sometimes the artwork is in Capricorn while the audience is in Mercury.
A famous case of this is the Hall and Oates song “She’s Gone.” It was released off of their second album Abandoned Luncheonette. It did well with the duo’s hometown listeners in Philadelphia, but did not connect as hoped with audiences elsewhere. Two years later, after they had scored a nationwide hit with “Sara Smile,” the song was rereleased and became a top-ten hit.
It had found its season.
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