Art Collectors Notes

Why buy art ?
Have you ever asked your self this question ? Now here are some good reasons why you should buy art !

Art Is For Enjoyment.
Art Enhances Your Environment.
Art Makes a Statement.
Art Can Be An Investment.
Art Enriches Your Life.
Art Makes An Impression.

Here are some tips on how Art Can Be An Investment!

Art can pay good returns, but usually takes time ard rarely happens overnight. If you’re hoping to make a quick profit, art will not be the right avenue for you. There are investors, of course, who like to put their money in art. They do this for two main reasons: aesthetic (emotional) as well as financial benefits. Art is one of those peculiar investments which you can actually both admire and enjoy. And the adventure of researching and hunting down a desired piece of art can be as much fun as owning it! Many art collectors enjoy combing galleries, websites, auctions and even flea markets in pursuit of their passion.
Profiting from the sale of a find becomes a bonus. The promise of both pleasure and profit from art certainly adds to the appeal of art collecting.

Here are some tips on how to build anart collection !
Tips on Art Collecting:

* Buy art that you like, and enjoy looking at.Not only as investment it must represent your taste and feel.

* Develop your "eye" and feel for art, by going to museums ,galleries exhibitions and libraries.

* Don't overlook the potential reach of the Internet: lots of galleries are now available "on-line" with huge selections of all art forms.

* Collect original art for its richness and added depth, rather than prints. An original painting has texture and volume, and colours are rich.

* If you have to settle for a print, choose a high quality canvas print.

* Acquire pieces painted by unknown & emerging artists- often you can find them at a reasonable price.


Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast
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Some of the many reasons to buy ART

WHY BUY ART?

Art Is For Enjoyment

Art Enhances Your Environment

Art Makes a Statement

Art Can Be An Investment

Art Enriches Your Life

Art Makes An Impression



Happy Collecting,

Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast


The object of art is to give life a shape.'
William Shakespeare


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Tips on Art Collecting:

* Buy art that you love, and enjoy looking at.Not only as investment it must represent your taste.

* Develop your "eye" for art, by going to museums,art galleries or the library.

* Don't underestimate the power of Internet: lots of galleries are now available "on-line".

* Collect original art for its richness and added depth, rather than prints. An original painting has texture and volume, and colours are rich.

* If you have to settle for a print, choose a high quality canvas print.

* Acquire pieces painted by unknown & emerging artists- often you can find them at a reasonable price.

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Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast

The object of art is to give life a shape
William Shakespeare

Art Movements

ART MOVEMENTS

Abstract art
Art which is either completely non-representational, or which converts forms observed in reality into patterns which are read / interpreted by the spectator.

Abstract expressionism
Abstract style originating in the U.S. in the 1940s emphasizing spontaneity and energy.

Art deco
Style in decoration and architecture originating in the 1920s characterized by streamlined, rhythmic patterns.

Baroque art
Term coined by the 19th century art historians for the prevailing style in Western European art c. 1580 - early18th c.

Biedermeier
Art term used to describe the Central European decorative arts of the period 1820-40.

Constructivism
An abstract art movement which manifested itself in Russia shortly before the Revolituon.

Cubism
Style inaugurated by Picasso and Braque in the early 20th century featuring fragmentation and rearrangement of natural forms.

Dadaism
Movement originating during and after World War I emphasizing the incongruous and accidental and mocking established traditions in art.

Expressionism
Style developed in Germany in the 1920s stressing the artist's emotional response to the subject, frequently using strong colors and distorted form.

Fauvinism (Fr. Fauve = "Wild beast"; pron. FOHV-ism)
An early 20th century French style employing thick outlines and bold, often clashing, colors unrelated to the colors of its subject in nature.

Gothic art
Medieval art from the ned of the Romanesque period (mid 12th c.) to the beginning of the Renaissance (early 15th c.).

Impressionism
French 19th c. art movement whereby artists tryed to catch a particular fleeting impression of color and light rather than making a synthesis in a studio.

Minimalism
Style emerging in the mid-20th century in which the elements are the simplest possible forms.

Naive art
The work of 20th century painters with a European cultural background who have not received a professional training.

Narrative painting
Painting whose chief intention is to tell a story.

Old Master
A painting of high quality produced before 1800 (formerly used for paintings earlier than 1700).

Op art
Name coined in 1947 for a style popular in the 1970s employing optical illusions by juxtapointing color and line in geometric patterns that seem to vibrate.

Pointillism
Late 19-century French style using small dots of pure color to compose images.

Pop art
American style of the 1960s employing imagery from popular and commercial culture to satirize or give emblematic value to familiar objects.

Rococo
A lighter and more playful version of the Baroque, associated with the reign of Louis XV of France.

Super Realism
Same as Photo and Hyper Realism. Exact copying of a photo or object. Often associated with the US on the 1970s.

Surrealism
Style using imagery from dreams and the subconscious, often distorting forms of ordinary objects or placing them in new contexts.

Transitional art
Work produced by modern African artists re-using discarded European materials.

Trompe l'oeil (Fr. "Fool the eye"; pron. tromLOY)
Style in painting so naturalistic that the eye is deceived into seeing flat surface as three-dimensional.



Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast
The object of art is to give life a shape
William Shakespeare

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Art Enthusiast
The object of art is to give life a shape
William Shakespeare

How To Draw or Paint Any Subject With Ease....Even If You Have Never Drawn Or Painted Before!

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How To Draw or Paint Any Subject With Ease....Even If You Have Never Drawn Or Painted Before!

- by Jean Littman & Ray Hogan

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Just imagine being able to draw and paint any subject with ease.....all from the comfort of your own home.......even if you have never drawn or painted before!

Let's face it, most people who have never painted before believe painting and drawing is a very difficult skill to master - and that it's even more difficult if you believe you have "zero talent". Impossibly tough in fact!

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Build an art collection ebook contents

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• Looking at Your "A.Q." - Aesthetic Quotient
Ideas, People, Places, Books to Help You Step Up Your "Aesthetic Quotient" What to Look for in Museums • Visiting with Artists

• The Forms Art Takes
Looking at Prints • How Prints Are Made • Wood Cuts and Wood En­gravings • Intaglio Methods • Lithographs • Stencil Process • Japanese Prints • Early Prints • The Ways of Drawing The Kinds of Drawings • Buying Drawings • The World of Water Colors Recent Developments • Qualities of Water Colors • Tempera, Gouache • The Many Forms of Sculpture Wood Sculpture • Stone Sculpture • Terra Cotta • Bronze Sculpture • Welded Sculpture • Slate Sculpture • Bas-Reliefs and Friezes • The New Forms • Visiting the Foundry • Ceramics and Enamels • Primitive Sculpture Oil Paintings Their Abundance • How to Look at Them • Variations

• But Is It Art?
Arts Opposed to Crafts • The Historical Look • Fraktur Paintings • Artifacts • Illustrated Books • Posters Reproductions • Some Pros and Cons • Oil Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

• Ready to Buy
General Criteria and Specific Pointers • Investment or Beauty? • Beware of "Autographs" • The Matter of "Quality" • Understanding and Appreciating the Artist • Choosing Your Field • Picking the Best

• Look Now—Buy Later
How to See and Buy at Art Galleries and Auctions • A Close Look at Art Dealers • Negotiating • Fakes and Forgeries • Exercising Care at Auctions • Principles for Auction Buying • Enjoying Galleries

• A Galaxy of Galleries
Who Sells What, Where, and How • The Leading Galleries—Profiles • A Table of Galleries: Artists, Fields, Prices, Viewpoints

• The Added Touch
Framing, Hanging, Lighting Your Collection • A Basic Rule • Suggestions for Hanging • Moving Your Pictures • The Importance of the Wall • Colors for Your Wall • Lighting • Frames and Framers • Some Pointers

• You've Collected It ... Protect It
Some Points About Insuring Your Collection • Establishing the Value of Your Collection • Listing "Risks" Involved • Insurance Policies and Various Coverages

• The Picture Ahead
Art's Present and Probable Future • The Matter of Art as an Investment • Bright Prospects

• New Frontiers
"Discovering" Old Painters • Finding New Ones • The Many Sources • Some Case Histories • Personal Recollections • The World Over • Pitfalls

Happy Collecting,

Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast


"The object of art is to give life a shape"
William Shakespeare


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What Type of Art Collector are You?

Depending in what type of collector you are, you may choose to
either focus on collecting a certain type of artwork, or buy one or
two from each of the following genres:

- Artist-specific
- Country-specific art (e.g. German art)
- Nudes/erotic artworks
- Abstracts
- Lacquer paintings
- Portraitures
- Landscapes
- Black & White
- and many others. Read this ebook ==>www.buildanartcollection.com
to get a full picture of the vast world of art collecting that you can explore.

To decide which one you should first focus on, then make it a habit
to spend time in galleries, museums, and auction houses. Pay
attention to what catches your attention - that could be the genre
you should focus on. If you can, take some art classes to develop
your eye for art. There are more tips here ==>www.buildanartcollection.com


Happy Collecting,

Nigel Thomas
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The object of art is to give life a shape.'
William Shakespeare

Marc Chagall

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

— Marc Chagall

Another point of view

Here is another point of view from Wendy Hermann

With an art consultant helping you, you can often find art collecting not only simple, but easy and fun as well. If you love art but dont have confidence in your ability to choose and negotiate fine art pieces - you may want to acquire the services of an art consultant.

What does an art consultant do? An art consultant can help you through the entire art selection process - from choosing a theme to negotiating the price,.having the artwork framed, and choosing where the art piece should be located. Shell let you be her guide and provide you with an art collection that is as expensive or inexpensive as your budget allows.

There are basically two types of art consultants. The first type of art consultant is one who focus on homeowners or individual art buyers. The second type works with corporate clients.

What can an art consultant help you with? First of all, she can help you to find paintings. A good art consultant will also be knowledgeable about current prices and can negotiate fair prices for you. She can be invaluable in documenting the value of your art pieces and giving you replacement value advice for your insurance needs. She can help determine the authenticity of the art and help you avoid getting stuck with imitations or frauds.

She can also review your existing art pieces and either look for new pieces to complement them or advise you on the best ways to liquidate them if together you decide that they no longer fit with your art acquisition strategy.

Not only will the art consultant assist you in finding the perfect artwork for your home. She will also, at your request, provide custom framing and professional installation.

An art consultant can also teach you about the subtleties of art buying and selling and eventually give you the confidence to appraise artwork on your own.

And finally, if and when you are ready to sell your art - a knowledgeable art consultant will advise you on its current worth and help you to get its fair market value in the marketplace.

So what should you look for in an art consultant?

The primary attribute you should look for is experience. But not just any experience. Experience in the type of art that you want to acquire. For example, if you have a keen interest in Inuit or Native American art, youll want to find an art consultant who is knowledgeable in that field. In this case, an expert in French Renaissance art will not serve you well.

In addition to having experience with the type of art that attracts you, she should also have experience in that period of art. Knowledge of current Native American art does not automatically translate to having knowledge of 17th century Native American art.

If you love art, and dont know much about it, using an art consultant can be a nice shortcut to acquiring lovely art pieces without having to attend art school and acquire a degree in art.
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Recent Art Quotes

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
::: Euan Uglow :::
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
::: Alice Neel :::
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
::: Cy Twombly :::
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
::: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner :::
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
::: Eckhart Tolle :::
I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.
::: Peter Doig :::
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
::: Diego Rivera :::
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
::: Andrew Wyeth :::
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
::: M.C. Escher :::
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
::: Giorgio Morandi :::
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
::: William Dobell :::
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
::: Banksy :::
I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
::: Bo Diddley :::
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
::: John Lennon :::
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
::: Bono :::
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
::: Henry Moore :::
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
::: Renoir :::
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
::: Mark Rothko :::
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
::: Damien Hirst :::
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
::: Rumi :::
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
::: Michelangelo :::
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
::: Jean Michel Basquiat :::
Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
::: Bob Marley :::
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
::: Jim Morrison :::

Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast

Buying Art on the Internet

The internet has forever changed the art market. It's now easier to
browse as many paintings as you wish - you never have to physically
visit the gallery just to window shop. The internet also allows you
to compare artworks and even prices with a few clicks of a mouse.

However, not all online art stores are the same. Some are more
reputable than others. How can you tell if an online art dealer is
honest? There are some things to look out for. First, reputable
websites provide you with detailed information about their
organization, their gallery, and their collections. The best online
art galleries also provide secure and verified online purchasing
portals.

It's also a good idea to read and verify testimonials from previous
customers. What do other collectors say about them?

Lastly, before you purchase from an online art store, check if it
provides an authentication. Also, do they have a reasonable returns
policy?

For more information on due diligence when it comes to buying art
works online, go here to these sites--->
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Happy Collecting
Nigel Thomas
Art Enthusiast

The ideal environment for an art collection

Much like wine, artworks (especially paintings) are best kept in stable environments. Only by creating this safe haven for your paintings and sculptures will you be able to preserve their quality and their value for the next generations.

If you are planning to grow a serious art collection, it may be wise to invest in a room with humidifiers. About 50% humidity and 70 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal. Variations in these temperature factors are okay, for as long as they are slow and never abrupt (the changes should be over a period of years or at least months). Sudden changes are harmful to your artworks.

If your collection is still small, though, then just keep your paintings away from sunlight. Just be sure that the wall you are hanging them on is not damp or recently plastered. Never hang a painting over a working fireplace. Never store a painting in an area subject to heat or dampness, such as a kitchen.

There are plenty of more tips here==>