If your idea of a picture is a meadow with a couple of horses grazing in it, then forget abstract art paintings. For many people only that type of traditional or classical picture can be termed art. For them the rest are daubs that even a well-trained monkey could produce - and certainly a computer, but they probably do not know that.
Strangely enough the first abstract paintings may have been influenced by the hieroglyphics and primitive paintings found, for example, in ancient caves. The symbolism used and the colors applied have, after all, lasted thousands of years. Their meaning though abstruse to us, is clear to the archaeologist and anthropologist.
Nothing lives in a vacuum and especially not art. So as there was change and movement in art so you find the parallel development of Jazz and other syncopated rhythms. Women demanded the vote and skirts approached the knee. The cataclysmic effects of WW1 cannot be ignored especially with the simultaneous revolution in Russia.
And the upheaval continued all over Europe. Russian artists who had come to the fore with the Revolution fled to Germany as they felt threatened. Soon again with their German contemporaries it was time to make another dash for freedom, this time to Paris and hence to London. Carrying their art schools and art circles in their heads or on their backs they finally found safe haven in New York.
Seventy years on and there has been another revolution which has once again changed the way artists and the public view their work. The impact of computers and the internet is hard to quantify. It has made art, all types of art, easily accessible. Picture galleries are there online and all the old masters can be viewed. You no longer have to travel to Rome if you want to see Michelangelo's ceiling at the Sistine Chapel.
There is much more to this story however. You can sell your paintings too. Thousands of people look at the internet every day. You can use the social media pages or online market forums and galleries. And you do not need to think of waiting for that one special buyer, you can sell prints and you can offer to frame them too. You can sell cards for different occasions or calendars with different art for every month. In fact the only limitation is your imagination.
The tools of the artists' trade have changed too. Paint can be slapped on in great swathes and then swirled around with a finger or a comb or any other unlikely implement which will give the desired effect. Drawings can be extremely elaborate or else child like in their simplicity.
Large abstract art paintings are highly favored in the corporate world to adorn the walls of office blocks and can even be rented by the month providing ever changing scenery. Real abstract art is as prized as any Renaissance painting and may be more valuable. However fashion still dictates when it comes to more modern works.
Strangely enough the first abstract paintings may have been influenced by the hieroglyphics and primitive paintings found, for example, in ancient caves. The symbolism used and the colors applied have, after all, lasted thousands of years. Their meaning though abstruse to us, is clear to the archaeologist and anthropologist.
Nothing lives in a vacuum and especially not art. So as there was change and movement in art so you find the parallel development of Jazz and other syncopated rhythms. Women demanded the vote and skirts approached the knee. The cataclysmic effects of WW1 cannot be ignored especially with the simultaneous revolution in Russia.
And the upheaval continued all over Europe. Russian artists who had come to the fore with the Revolution fled to Germany as they felt threatened. Soon again with their German contemporaries it was time to make another dash for freedom, this time to Paris and hence to London. Carrying their art schools and art circles in their heads or on their backs they finally found safe haven in New York.
Seventy years on and there has been another revolution which has once again changed the way artists and the public view their work. The impact of computers and the internet is hard to quantify. It has made art, all types of art, easily accessible. Picture galleries are there online and all the old masters can be viewed. You no longer have to travel to Rome if you want to see Michelangelo's ceiling at the Sistine Chapel.
There is much more to this story however. You can sell your paintings too. Thousands of people look at the internet every day. You can use the social media pages or online market forums and galleries. And you do not need to think of waiting for that one special buyer, you can sell prints and you can offer to frame them too. You can sell cards for different occasions or calendars with different art for every month. In fact the only limitation is your imagination.
The tools of the artists' trade have changed too. Paint can be slapped on in great swathes and then swirled around with a finger or a comb or any other unlikely implement which will give the desired effect. Drawings can be extremely elaborate or else child like in their simplicity.
Large abstract art paintings are highly favored in the corporate world to adorn the walls of office blocks and can even be rented by the month providing ever changing scenery. Real abstract art is as prized as any Renaissance painting and may be more valuable. However fashion still dictates when it comes to more modern works.
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