Where Do You Find The Art And Paintings You Admire? It`s Not Where You Think.

Pictures and Art say a great deal about the character of the person who lives in the house.

They say a picture can say a thousand words.

A picture hanging on a wall in a certain room of a home dictates the essence of that room.

But people seem to be nervous about the statement that the picture is conveying, a certain picture hanging in the entrance hall means to visitors that the owner of the house is a romantic, an adventurer, an idiot, or hasn’t got a clue about paintings.

You should not care, don’t give “A DAM” --- sorry about swearing, but if Rhett Butler can say it so can you and I.

I have a large painting of the “Magnificent Seven” adorning my living room wall, they are my mentors, I can sit quietly looking up at them, gaining strength from them, getting inspiration and getting closer to God.

It may sound a little heavy, I know, but if you can relate to a picture and place the essence of the pictures energy in your consciousness and be that picture, or ask help from that picture, you will gain a strength and inspiration from the meditative process.

Art is like music. You listen to the music that you enjoy. If you enjoy classical you won’t listen to heavy rock will you. So forget about good taste or bad taste, doing the right thing or wrong thing. Instead just do what you like because the painting makes you happy, contented, serene, relaxed, inspirational, excited and ambitious

If you feel uncertain about what is good and what you like, there are ways in which you can help yourself to gain the confidence to evolve your own style.

Take a day out and become an expert. Go to your local Art Gallery and Museum, enjoy yourself get the feel of the surroundings, have a cup of coffee in the café bar, listen to the people around you, you can do this all by yourself, you do not need anyone else with you, in fact it is best if you do this all by yourself.

I am not quoting the song “ All By Myself “ but there are times that you need to be “All By Yourself “ actually, now that I remember it, I quite like it. The song

Now where were we? O yes, in the art gallery, having a cup of coffee, or a glass of water, or in my case a glass of wine.

The art gallery’s and museums are the places to go to. Then go to the major ones in your biggest and capital cities. Take a break, have a great day out, and see the things you have never seen, do the things you have never done, and be the person you have never been.

Become an Art Connoisseur, “Your “ type of Art Connoisseur.

It can become an addictive pastime, an incredibly fascinating way to learn about the great masters.

Go to your local art auctions, but beware, you will be sucked into the excitement and wheeling dealing of the proceedings. Before you know it you will become an art dealer, buying and selling paintings and prints.

For profit

Your knowledge and experience and feel of the market about arts and the craftsmen will grow and grow, you will even think about earning an income from it. And so you should.

Actually you can, with.

MAKE YOUR NET AUCTION SELL

All this because you wanted to have a few nice paintings around your home.

Want to know about a great evening out and expand your knowledge of the arts?

Find out where you’re nearest, or your farthest, art school, university, Ivy League, college is.

Find out when the students graduation evening is and spend a terrific night viewing art from the masters of the future.

Build your art gallery in your own home on your own personal taste, not on what television experts say or what they think.

Buying pictures, paintings and prints is enormous fun and it does not matter if you line your walls with Van Gough`s or the art school students or even your own work.

Just as long as it appeals to you.

You can replace the living room wallpaper but that painting is still there, and don’t leave it hanging there by itself, get a partner for it, or two, three or four.

A collection of paintings takes time to amass, and time is what we have, there is always plenty of time, there is no rush when it comes to choosing a great painting. Just keep looking, learning, get the feel of the world of art, and you too will become an expert.

Portraits

Before the advent of the camera, portraits were created to have an historic record of a person or event. A portrait is usually a pictorial representation of an individual. In the hands of a gifted artist it becomes a means to convey something about the person through objects and ideas. At ARTinaClick.com we feature many important portrait artists. Rembrandt was one of the first artist's to capture the inner essence of the sitter. It is in these psychological profiles, particularly his self-portraits, that we begin to understand the artist. Primitive portraits give us a glimpse of life in the early 19th Century. Although we do not know who painted the portraits there is often a record of the date and the sitters. Unlike the traditional portraiture of the day these folk art paintings are of ordinary people. The compositions, most often of children, include favorite objects, costumes of the day and detailed backgrounds. When the camera was invented to record the likeness of an individual, artists sought to use portraiture as a vehicle for expression. French painter Henri Matisse's portraits of his wife are experiments in Fauve. Pablo Picasso's cubist inventions had experiments in portraiture as well. In Girl Before a Mirror, Seated Woman and The Dream we understand the flattening of cubist space as all of the facial features are visible simultaneously. Perhaps one of the best known portrait is Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged ear. In this painting and in the portait of his friend the postman Roulin, Van Gogh achieves the ultimate goal of portraiture, to teach us about the artist and the sitter and most importantly about ourselves. Today our fascination with celebrities has made images of Elvis, Marilyn and

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It`s a discovery that leaves you with a happy feeling.

I have found this , this is my discovery, this I can talk about, understand and explain.

Together let us discover the artists of the future.

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