Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The Power Of Art Is Simply Immense

By Freda Watts


Should you be appreciative of the finer things in life, one would do well investing in some great pieces of artwork for your home, as the power of art is profound. To do this, one would benefit going to the local gallery. Here you will not only come across the local works but also some international canvasses.

Reputable galleries usually exhibit an array of different types of artworks. Such a place should have not only some paintings, but also of sculpture. One should be able to find various forms using water color as well as charcoal and acrylic paint. Sometimes a particular medium goes out of fashion and takes some time to reappear on the scene.

Such works are usually quite expensive to purchase but add style to any home. One should make an attempt to have at least four great pieces of artwork in the home. They are great conversational matter at any house party. One could even try to do some for your home yourself. The more you do the better you get at it and soon you will be able to fill your house with original pieces of your own work.

Should this not be your cup of tea, one could always visit a gallery where your favorite artist exhibits his work and commission him to do some canvasses for your home. Usually the gallery will do this for you. Doing such work for a client is an artist's greatest dream. This is one way that the painter can get his name well known and should his work be admired by many people, he will soon get a good reputation which any one in the art world wants nowadays.

Very often in today's busy schedule, psychologists analyze the simple drawings of children in order to help them cope with things that are going on in their lives. Young children are not able to communicate verbally when things are going wrong, but their drawings seldom make mistakes. This way they can receive the help they require.

Artists are used by the police very day in order to draw up identikits of criminals. Such art is important to the police as these people are able to sketch faces with very little to no information and are mostly precise which often leads to the arrest of the criminal. Identikit artists are invaluable to these authorities.

Recently in Southern Africa, a controversial painting that exposed their president's genitals was exhibited at a gallery. This picture was then defaced by an opposing citizen when he splashed a bucket of paint over the area of exposure. This caused a huge up roar and the citizen was arrested for damage to property. Such was the upset, that there was later a protest outside the gallery. People were very unhappy about the whole story and the painting still hangs in the gallery today.

Famous works are hanging in galleries all over the world and are invaluable and irreplaceable, because the power of art is incredible. These works depict times gone by and offer a lot of insight as to the life of those times. Cave drawings are also a form of artistry and tell of the way they hunted in those times. Egyptian markings in the pyramids are fascinating and the mediums used are of good quality. These pictures of those people also tell of their times and how they lived.




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