Hobbies,Art,Home Decor
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist”.....
Art, Collecting,Home Decor are the expression of your own individual creativity or imagination.We See Things As We Are...This allows the individual to express things toward the world as a whole.The " visual arts" at its simplest, is a form of communication....it may seek to bring about a particular emotion or mood, for the purpose of relaxing or entertaining the viewer. Art moves people. It stimulates and motivates the viewers. Look at how simple posters were used to promote propaganda during the war years. Look at how advertising uses visual images to market products.Art can stimulate conversation. It can stimulate thought. It can make people take pause, think and ask questions. It can even cause people to question what they think and change the way they think.. Art draws people. People travel around town and around the world to see art. It promotes tourism. It even attracts business and consumers.Art has been perceived by some as belonging to some social classes and often excluding others but this is no longer true today.With widespread use of the World Wide Web a much broader spectrum of artists entered the field, often completely independent from art institutions....
Let me start off by saying that everything I talk about in this website comes from first-hand experience. I have been collecting a variety of art pieces for the last 10 years. I am a passionate art collector with a fondness for the unusual and the weird and they range widely in style and format. I am not passionate about art as an investment, I love having art in my life.Art Collectors usually don’t conform to fads and crazes; they buy because they enjoy the relationship with art that transforms a part of their lives. They do not buy for investment purposes; they collect because they have discovered a certain appreciation for a particular artist, a certain media, style, process, subject matter or other value they find in an art form. A happy collector seeks information and insight. Of course I have too much but I am reluctant to part with most of them.I still consider myself a novice art collector..
Two 1903 paintings recently sold at auction for $590,000 - the paintings were in the famous "Dogs Playing Poker" series.
Fox
News reported how an anonymous German student found a small painting
hidden inside a sofa she had purchased at a thrift shop.The painting was
a rare 17th century piece by an unknown artist, and it sold at a
Hamburg auction for over $27 K.
Most
people will not trust their own judgment as to what is art. They believe people
whose job is to criticize art . These critics tell you when a work of art is
good, when it is bad.Art is too personal to rely solely on another person´s
judgement. One must experience art first hand, not solely through the point of
view of someone else.The second that anyone tries to place a strict definition
on art, art itself is destroyed but pointing out shapes and images of a work is
possibly helping others to understand the work. Collecting is about
using visual art to explore feeling and emotions.....it’s about seeing
feelings, making them visible to yourself and others.The collectors who really
matter are not necessarily the very richest or even the ones with the most
pieces.....They are those who encourage interest in the art they collect and
share their treasures with the public....HAPPY HUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A Penny for your Thoughts......
A Penny for your Thoughts......
