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Big Time Art Fairs
Once only the haunts of upper-echelon collectors, fairs today offer a wonderfully egalitarian spirit. Perceived snobbery is gone, and everyone is welcome - buyers and voyeurs alike. Most often held in one of the world’s art capitals - New York, London, Paris -a fair is a gathering of dealers from around the globe who bring their finest, hoping to return home with a lighter load. Fairs are open to the public, with tickets costing around $15-25 USD, plus there are glamorous events the night before the openings.
Serious collectors, gallery owners and museum curators go, of course, to buy. They join the arts and antiques aficionados as well as beginning collectors who are there to educate and expose themselves to treasures they may never have encountered before - and may never again. At whatever end of the market you are in, whether buying or selling, it’s a very efficient way of seeing what’s out there.
Use a fair as an opportunity to learn. Discover likes and dislikes, and educate yourself about favored artwork. Don’t forget to Sign the Guestbook with your street and e-mail address. Throughout the year you’ll find yourself invited to openings and art events.
Inside the mind of the collector…
“I only buy paintings that keep me awake at night.” :::Donald Hess, collector
“If it moved me, that was enough. Being moved is what collecting is all about.” ::: Walter Annenberg, collector :::
“Collecting is a life-long passion…the thrill of the hunt, the pursuit of the unusual.” :::Barbara Milo Ohrbach:::
“If you possess even one beautiful object it teaches you more, by its proximity, than a hundred visits to museums.” :::Beverly Nichols, writer and collector
“Collecting art is more of an investment of time than money. Collectors often spend time learning about the art and about the artist before pulling out their checkbooks. Buying art is a commitment to the artist.” ::Eli Broad, Art Collector:::
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Breaking the Mold
It is not surprising that the Modern Movement in art began its career as the property of an exclusive few. The artists, their interpreters and supporters, formed a tiny minority within the culture that surrounded them. The “new art” modern movement was essentially unofficial. Much like that of today’s digital art entrepreneurs. The Modern Movement had no track record with formal institutions and was perceived as “non-art” and aggressive to traditional museums. One reason for this was that many Modernist groups were determined to abolish absolute respect for the past, which they felt laid an oppressive weight on the art of the present. For over 100 years (1860s-1970s) the movement was inclined to challenge artistic norms as well as to flout established conventions.
The tradition-bound academic art enjoyed public and official favor during this time and the supporters of the modern aesthetic were strictly against new ideals. Renowned painters of that period worked either through commissions for a select audience, or often through self-funded public displays of their own work. Exhibitions of “decorative art forms” were also organized by governments on a regular basis.
Digital Fine Art challenges conventional thinking in the same way. We know that it will take time, persistence, ingenuity, and dedication to forward public thinking. There will be antagonists in the pursuit of our artistic recognition and identity, but there will also be those who see our work as progressive and a defining statement of our times. An art form that has already become culturally iconic and necessary.
As we forge ahead, let us not discount the lessons that are to be found in the history of art. Use the challenges of the past to educate the present.
Commentary References: Life Style Lounge; InfoPlease.com
“We can all stand to be reminded that where art is concerned – and by that, I mean any creative endeavor – our role is not just to be a consumer, ingesting what someone else has produced; we're completing a circle that began with the creative spark within the artist's mind, closing a circuit that, just like an electrical connection, creates a charge.”
Robert Fairs - Art Critic
Living In Our Time - The Bottom Line
Much of today’s art addresses the question “What does it mean to live in our world today?”
The world has become so interconnected that we call it a global society. Technologies such as the Internet and satellite communications have blurred national and cultural boundaries. Many people travel great distances for economic reasons, as tourists, or as refugees from political turmoil or natural disasters. For artists who have moved between cultures, questions of personal and cultural identity are often central to their work. Racism, poverty, political unrest, world health crises, environmental concerns, and terrorism have plagued us for generations, and artists often feel passionately about such social and political issues. Many have become activists, trying to raise awareness of issues, pose questions, and work to change society through their art. [Reference: Walker Art Center]
The bottom line -- Can art change society? YOU tell me.
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Play with Light
Perhaps because we can't see it in its common state, streaming through the air, we don't tend to think of light as one of the more valuable implements in a visual artist's toolkit.
Experiment with “catching the light and play off it.” Increase intensity with a glint or glimmer or draw attention with that flash of radiance, one that might suggest that in some way a fixed and solid object is fluid, capable of motion.
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Welcome to 2010!
What do you want most from this page? Let me know what would benefit you the most in the coming year.
Mary
“Yes ready [for the new year]. Thanks, it is necessary to think :) “ from = [p]apa[zit]
From: Ansgard Thomson
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Comment: “Hello -- I have finally had time to browse more of the work here. You have really put together a fine site. There is such a diversity of fine creative work. I look forward to viewing and posting more. The best to you this new year! Robert Hustead
Regarding the J.D.Jarvis Article of December 28, 2009:
“Super article and as always it reads well :)" from = Bepca[dzh]E
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“Print may be king but the future is digital.”
This page posted 4 January 2010
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