Archive for the 'Buying Painting' Category

Mixed Media Art Auctions

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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 you’ll find.  I found a pebble art piece from the 1960’s that featured a bare-chested chariot [...]

Buying Paintings Minimalism

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Though I could enjoy speaking on the topic of art for sometime, I found myself without a way to truly understand the differing values in the ways of thought that permeate this grouping of human experience, and found myself looking to sources over the Internet to further my knowledge to utilize the information gathered to [...]

Buying Paintings: Romanticism

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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 renowned names [...]

Buying Abstract Paintings

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Buying and collecting abstract painting can be a labor of love.  I love abstract paintings.  I think that my favorite medium is gouache.  I recently purchased a work from Oscar Bluemner.  The person I bought the abstract painting from had it in storage for over twenty years.  I am going to hang this piece in [...]