Art and painting: an inner revelation

With school bags getting heavier and lunch breaks shorter, a child’s life is gradually transformed into a stereotype one. His hidden emotions get a vent in the form of the many extracurricular activities. Painting is a habit nurtured by maximum children in the tender years of their life. But increasing academic pressure coupled with growing career focus deters this routine custom. Though few take to painting for a lifetime, many even turn it into their profession. Painting and various other art forms reveal the creative zeal in an individual. It brings to light the camouflaged dichotomies persistent in one.

Online painting galleries

Paintings bring freshness to a room, thus everyone wishes to have their room decorated with the paintings they like but visiting galleries and picking up paintings suitable with the color combination demands a lot of time which is hard in the fast-paced lives that we lead. Since now-a-days everything is available over the web, there are numerous websites selling paintings covering a wide range of art with different landscapes and colors. A person just needs to visit galleries over the net, browse over the divergent amount of paintings, match the color in accordance with your room and in case you don’t like anything, you always have the option to switch to the next website. Personal visits to galleries consume a huge amount of time and energy, which can definitely be saved through the services provided over the net.

Setting up an art gallery

Art galleries are finding themselves both in the business as well as the non profitable venture sectors. However setting up an art gallery for whatever purpose requires proper planning and coordination. The first prior concern is finding a space, usually a large ground floor room with wide blank walls. Secondly it is important to appoint a curator, whether it is oneself or hiring a professional. Advertising the word out allows artists to develop interests to rent out the space. Having an entry fee for the first few exhibitions attracts the audience and hence a wide array of appreciation as well. Lastly, art galleries are all about showcasing talents and art and hence it is important to keep this spirit growing for a successful venture.

Painting by kids

How boring is it to walk into a house which is decorated with the same boring sunset pictures and paintings? A fun way to redo one's house is by framing paintings that the kids make. While pastel painting and water painting are pretty conventional, a sort of abstract but beautiful paintings are marble paintings. A marble painting is done by filling a tub with water, pouring compatible colors of oil paint into it and then making the surface of the sheet of paper come into contact with the surface of the water. The impression made by the floating oil paint creates a beautiful juxtaposition of colors on the paper, which can later be framed and used at home.

Modern Life and Art

Art and painting have a vast overwhelming history all over the globe. Every country has its own culture of art and painting and has evolved over the years in different eras. Europe has been a witness to Baroque, Gothic, Romantic and other schools and era of art and painting. Modern art today is a reflection of our modern lives—abstract. Modern life suffers the pangs of existential living and a fragmented existence. This is manifested in modern art by modern artists and painters. There were several modern art movements that have made their presence felt and made sufficient mark on culture, like Cubism, Imagism and also, the recent art movement started by Andy Warhol that has created quite a stir in the perception of art and modern life itself.

How free is abstract art these days?

Emotions have always been closely related to art. Just as we have abstract emotions which cannot be defined and are free of all conventions, abstract art also takes it stand. Abstract Art is an art not represented by an accurate form of an object. This representation can be different in many ways changing the shape and color. The artist either simplifies or exaggerates an object. Abstract art may be of different styles. However the main forms that stand out are Cubism, Neoclassicism, and Abstract Expressionism.

The question that mostly arises is how free can abstract art be? Abstract art was modernized due to the limits of cubism and other forms which currently do not have a fixed standard convention that is followed. Will this constant expansion evolve art or just create chaos?

Art, or art-deco?

The world of art and painting is a ridiculously expensive world to be living in. Paintings sell in the millions, and many people who are thus enabled, use it as a future investment. People are employed by such individuals to scour for new talent and invest in them, in hopes that they become famous in the future.

The art world is also increasing by leaps and bounds. Sculptures and figurines sell for ludicrous amounts, only to end up in a private collection which nobody else will ever see. Art is meant for the world to appreciate, and a private collection kind of spoils the point. Most such collectors have no appreciation for art, and use it simply as an investment.