Abstract hard can be harder than it looks. (Buy some acrylics and try it if you don&#x27;t believe me.)<p>But the &#x27;you didn&#x27;t&#x27; part is more about self-promotion and networking than aesthetics.<p>If you park your abstract canvas on the desk of Important Gallery and wait for them to offer you an exhibition, you&#x27;ll be waiting a long time - unless you&#x27;ve already made a name for yourself through self-promotion, networking, and (cynical?) cultivation of galleries, patrons, and important collectors. Or you&#x27;ve been already been canonised by same as The Next Big Thing.<p>So from the point of view of art-as-marketing, you <i>couldn&#x27;t</i> do that.<p>Put crudely, no one cares unless they can make money from your work (top tier galleries, collectors) or cultural capital (national galleries, museums.) And money isn&#x27;t going to happen unless you&#x27;re already on the inside having come up through art school and made the right connections, or you&#x27;re enough of an edgy outsider to have a bankable story.