Kamis, 08 Desember 2016

Things To Consider When Choosing Abstract Paintings To Buy

By Karen Russell


Art has remained important because it is one way to chronicle the lives of people living throughout history. While science and its facets are very important to our survival, art has remained to be the reason why we survive. It gives life meaning and without this meaning, there really is no point of surviving.

Famous painting and the artistic movement started getting famous in Europe and started to be carried out in America. While realism and symbolism are very anatomy based artistic movements, abstract painting started to catch on. One interesting thing about LA abstract paintings is how they just keep evolving throughout time.

This is not to go into technicalities but there are so many factors one can consider. First off, is whether or not it means something to you. That should be the highest factor to consider when buying a painting. Whether it is simply something that you found from Bath and Beyond or something you have scoured the county for.

The thing with abstraction is that there is no concrete life form visual and accurate representation that immediately makes the subject recognizable, if even there is a subject at all. Abstract in its essence is a matter of composition consisting of well placed shapes and colors. While this may be true it does not stop it from holding so much meaning and life.

Contemporary artists have the potential to do really well in Los Angeles given that there are many galleries and avenues that cater to abstraction. There are so many reasons why you want to buy some abstract art for your home or any space that you deem important to your existence. Now this is not some quip about why you should support art and its artists, although that is already a given and can be passed of as, well, moral obligation to culture.

Sure a 10 year old can do it, but they would not be able to on the original scale of the piece, much more with its political meaning. Contemporary artists best flourish in the cities these days. Technology and the invention of different materials have allowed people to come up with new and different mediums to play with.

The funny thing with many contemporary pieces is how they are either really good or really pretentious. The price is not a good telling factor for this either. There are so many artworks sold that look so plain but then again you would not know that it was how they were made. There are also those that have come out accidental and are just splatters on a canvas instead of being made with careful composition.

Many would like to accuse abstract art as just splatters on a canvas, or random shapes with colors not carefully thought of. This can be so far from the true, although, truthfully, there may be some works by amateurs that are merely just random strokes. This is called lazy and pretentious art, which is what you want to look out for.

Let us face it, it makes you question if there really is still some cultural significance to what is being displayed. This is not to say that all abstracts are random and just drips of paint and a composition of shapes. You can check out a Pollock piece and realize that the intricacies of its fractals and patterns create a mathematical pattern. Then again looking at art technically is a matter of study. It takes experience and genuine interest to actually see what is good and what is pretentious.




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