Surrealists were a group of painters and artists that drew a large amount of inspiration from the potent impact from dreams.
In the beginning, before this artistic movement was fully embraced, many civilized people questioned the value of these works of art.
Though considered some of the more recent ground-breaking artwork yet to […]
I have been buying modern oil paintings for a show in my gallery.
I have found many nice pieces.
I found a painting called Village in winter in a private collection in Illinois.
The artist was Fern Isabel Coppedge and she was an American.
I liked the piece because of the […]
Also known as Cubist Realism, and related to the Art Deco movement, Precisionism was developed in the United States after World War I.
The term for this movement was coined in the 1920s, and influenced by the Cubist and Futurist movements; the main themes for these paintings were mainly regarding industrialization and modernization of […]
Mixed media art auctions have a lot to offer.
Today I found several seriolithographs.
I liked the colors that the Polish artist Zamy Steynovitz used.
The fun part of mixed media art auctions is that you just never know what youll find.
I found a pebble art piece from the 1960s that featured […]
I have been looking for impressionist cityscapes in various mediums to decorate my home.
I prefer to hang art that was created in the last fifteen years.
There are so many great artists to choose from.
I have decided that I want to have three impressionist cityscapes painted in acrylic.
I will be […]
Some of the most valuable early artwork comes from a point of time before the Renaissance had begun, and going on through the early Middle Ages, referred to as the period of Gothic art.
During this particular time in history, the artwork took on telling narrative stories through pictures, and much of these pieces […]
I have a love for Asian botanical paintings.
Ive been seeking them out for a long time.
I have many in my collection and love each and every one of them.
The first Asian botanical painting that I bought was Vietnamese.
It was one of a series of twelve paintings that I bought […]
Though sometimes referred to as the “anti-classical” movement in art, Romanticism is a style that focuses on the artist’s individualistic and emotionally wrought point of view, and is found to oppose the art movement known as Neoclassicism.
Even though there have been many artists to combine elements of both.
Some of the more […]
What started out as a rather avant-garde art movement has become one of the greatest examples of artistic forms breaking that mold of convention, revolutionizing European painting and sculpture up to the present century, and was first developed between 1908 and 1912 during a collaboration between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso with influences from the […]
Buying folk art paintings has become a passion of mine.
Ive been looking for them everywhere it seems.
I found a bunch of folk art paintings recently and I am having trouble deciding which one to buy.
There was a folk art painting by Rev.
Howard Finster that is titled Howard in 1944.
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