Sometimes these first works are a foundation to build upon and the watchmaker will become a mainstay in the industry and shepherd in a new generation of watchmaking. In the watch world it is no different as many emerging watchmakers will hit the scene with their unique idea, or their mastery of some set of skills, and the industry will sit up and pay attention. These “overnight successes” are no such thing, it is always the result of years of hard work, dedication, and practice honing their skills, but the sudden rise from obscurity can sometimes make it appear like they just lucked into their position.Īnd while luck always plays a role in capturing the public eye, once you have captured it then it can persist partly thanks to a pattern of commitment to your craft. The taste of the masses is fickle and ever-changing, and past success is no indication of future performance.īut often, an artist will either have an existing back catalogue of work that people discover is equally as engaging, or they continue to create new works in the same vein of what catapulted them to fame and fortune. It isn’t that they aren’t producing fantastic art, but often that the style or artistic choices simply do not resonate with such a wide audience as the piece that made them popular. This may have very little to do with the individual artist: you have probably heard the term “one-hit-wonder.”Ī one-hit-wonder is usually a derogatory term used to describe what happens when an artist makes a work of art that captures the public’s imagination, something straight out of the zeitgeist, but fails to repeat it with their other work. Either they have a parabolic arc from obscurity to superstardom and back to obscurity, or they find the groove and continue producing at a very high level to sustain their popularity. Whenever a new artist breaks out onto the scene, the aftermath often goes one of two ways.

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