a rt a rt p ast, p resent and f uture is it really worth it?
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ARTPAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Is It Really Worth It?
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WHAT IS ART?
According to Dictionary.com,
[Art is] The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
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Artist: Jackson PollockYear: 1948Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $140 millionCurrency Adjusted: $149.70 million
Top Five Most Expensive
Paintings
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Artist: Gustav KlimtYear: 1907Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $135 millionCurrency Adjusted: $144.4 million
Artist: Willem de KooningYear: 1953Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $137.5 millionCurrency Adjusted: $147 million
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Artist: Vincent Van GoghYear: 1890Year of Sale: 1990Sale Price: $82.5 millionCurrency Adjusted: $136.1 million
Artist: Pierre-Auguste RenoirYear: 1876Year of Sale: 1990Sale Price: $78.1 millionCurrency Adjusted: $128.8 million
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ABSTRACTION
When looking at these ‘Top 5 Most Expensive Paintings’ a pattern seemed to emerge
As a group, it is clear to us that the average consumer feels a connection to the abstract art
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WHY MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING ORIGINAL ART TODAY?
Understanding of Interior Design
Color psychology
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Beauty They can literally stare at the same art piece
over a period of days and each time come away with new insight as to its meaning.
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The Rise in Disposable Income Greater ability to buy original art Attraction
a tendency to want something unique rather than mass produced
Symbol of success
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Greater Amount of Information on Original Art in the Press Hardly any newspaper is produced without one
article or another regarding paintings, sculptures and photography
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On A Local Level…
• A local chicken has painted a picture with the help of his owner
• Merrimack, NH• $550• Acryllic Paint• Sold on Ebay
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POPULAR ABSTRACT MOVEMENTS
De Stijl 1917-1931
Dada Movement 1916-1923
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DE STIJL This inspired a lot of artists in the Dada
period
Artists of this movement seek to express a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order.
Achieve pure abstraction by reducing to the essentials of form and color they simplified visual compositions to the
vertical and horizontal directions used only primary colors along with black and
white.
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PIET MONDRIAN
Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
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“I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true…”
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DADA MOVEMENT
Movement Involved Visual Art Literature Poetry Anti-war politics through a rejection of the
prevailing standards in art Purpose was to ridicule other artists
Show meaninglessness of the modern world
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
Fountain, 1917
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IS IT WORTH IT TO YOU?