A Personal Overview Creative, authentic, original works of art completed by a real artist, is the outpourings and embodiment of energy, mind, and soul. It is a visual expression of what is in the human nature of the individual artist. From my mind with ideas, well thought-out aims and mission of a project determines the …
I saw this exhibition recently and decided to write something about it and share with you. I do not write critiques, only when I was persuaded to do it in my younger years, by the editor of the London magazine Art’Rage. I am a viewer with written reactions and comments in a – Blog! This …
WAXING LYRICAL Another area of my practice that I approach as a creative art form, often and generally understated, is spoken word performance, creative writing, and poetic prose. All in the attempt to express my thoughts in lyrical verse. This is a hobby-horse, I love to ride, rocking steady in rhythm, rhyme and …
Vocation For Life making the choice of the Fine Arts as a vocation for life, I was not fully aware how the European art world works, especially the commercial business of the Fine Arts. Every year thousands of would-be artists, leave art schools with high hopes and ambitions to achieve. Yet very few can …
New Methods Now that conceptual, reimagining, and reinvention are major themes, all popular features driving the leading groups of the art world. It is becoming more difficult for new original works of art to gain exposure, find an audience, including much needed new collectors. Currently, originality presuppose a big risk for gallery directors, museums and …
THE SCRATCHES & WRITINGS ON THE WALLS Protests & Political Leanings In some quarters of the visual art worlds, there are outcries relating to the lack of art focussing and addressing the current crisis in politics and political leadership, all over the world. Some say, “it appears as if professional politicians of all hues, have …
HIGH SOCIETY In the European context, the traditions of the Fine Arts were the domain and playgrounds of the royal houses and rich aristocrats. Many patrons of the visual art were wealthy general of industry. They started major corporate collections, in the buildings of their headquarters. Today, the arenas of the visual arts are dominated …
“Whilst working, the title and name of the activity ‘Art’ is nowhere in mind, neither in my conscious activities.” Street artist. New World With new digital technologies plunging all of us deeper into the unknown of global realities, deeply penetrating questions demanding answered are being asked. Seeking sensible answers from artists, not only from what …
Visual Art is a gigantic commercial business, generating huge sums of yearly income measured in the amount of billions. How and who are truly reaping the real benefits? Is a question well worth the rewards of time it will take to accurately find out. Researching the lives of visual artists in the Modernist European Movements …
Creativity Creating and making work is always an enjoyable daily event, the apparent difficulties are the narratives of the subject matter, how it matches or marry with the created object, in the process to be accepted as a work of art. In the journey of creating and making, ideas and intentions are noted, but major …