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 …
The World Leaders In Art Heritage & Legacy As Industry. Visual Cultures in its present form as something to be seen in galleries as a popular past-time, archived in museums as heritage, supported by an assortment of institutions and individual scholars, purchased by patrons, collectors and commercial conglomerates, sold at auctions, and reproduced through mass-media …
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Experiential Living I have no expectations that anyone will agree with what I write. However, wrong or right in the reader’s mind, I try my best to be totally honest and truthful as I understand it. In the attempt to address the title of this blog ‘Art & Identity’, I will focus on myself as …
ARTIST MENTALITY To mention the great Pablo Picasso, he explained carefully, the greatest work a real artist can do, is the work done on yourself. It is continuous throughout the life of the artist, to the very end. Artists are unique individual human beings, the personal vision visualised is most sacred, a mantra …
Art as Therapy – Food for Brain, Mind, Body & Soul The first time I ventured into the area of art as therapy, I was working in the capacity of an information officer at the African-Caribbean Leadership Council, in the London Borough of Haringey. The art therapist approached me with the idea of a painting …