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Author: John Eadon A visit to an art museum broadens your cultural horizons
When was the last time you made an outing to your local art museums? Unfortunately, in these cyber days, we tend to forget the cultural activities that bring us a little closer to humanity. The net, television, movies and video games have supplanted the cultural attractions right outside our doors.
Although many of us realize that technology has overtaken our lives, perhaps we're just too busy to take notice. We have our iPods, blackberries and cell phones to fill in every available moment. Family members are occupied with school, work and - technology - to the point of arriving home exhausted, only to continue our mad dash in an anonymous or distant communication vehicle, collapsing on the couch for a hasty dinner and our favorite reality TV show.
If art does indeed imitate life, then we are guilty of ignoring those reflections of ourselves and humanity at large. It looks like a visit to one of our local art museums might be an enriching and different experience.
Set aside a day on the weekend. Check out your newspaper's entertainment section and see what's currently being exhibited at the art museums in your home town. Think of what you might be missing! Perhaps there's an exhibit of Rousseau's work on loan this month. This 19th century painter's work is truly awesome when viewed up close. You can lose yourself for hours just examining the brush strokes and colors. You may be surprised to find yourself drawn into the moment depicted in his paintings.
If your kids have never been inside an art museum, please insist on giving them such an opportunity. Any kid who likes to draw or paint may well be enthralled to see masterpieces in the flesh. The original paintings have a life and human element that can never be appreciated in a reproduction or book.
Who knows that your child may be so excited by this outing, they may be inspired to take a class and follow a hidden dream? Art museums and exhibits can inspire the heart.
To make the most of a visit to any art museum, look for docent guided tours. You'll learn incredible details and points of history relative to the art you're viewing. If docent tours are not available, you can rent audio tours.
It's high time we all got back in touch with the cultural diversity, emotions and love apparent in art. Your heart and mind will be refreshed and regain a perspective on the real world before us.
Going to art galleries and art museums was a big part of my life growing up. My parents were big believers in the value of culture. For them, of course, education was important, but even more important was learning to appreciate beautiful art. have to admit that, whatever I may have thought of my parents early attempts to make me a lover of the arts, they definitely worked.
By the time I was 13 years old, I loved going to artists galleries of all types. Whether we were taking a trip to New York to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or sticking around Detroit to go to an opening in a small local gallery, I was always excited to see it. My parents have pretty eclectic tastes. They don't like everything, but they like things from all directions. They like modern art, classical Art, outsider Art, and even medieval paintings. I grew up with the same eclectic tastes.
My parents were quite happy when I decided to spend my life as an artist. Well - not quite. They had some concerns, and reasonable ones at that. You see, making a living as an artist is no easy task. Just getting art gallery shows can be difficult, and actually selling off pieces of arts can be near to impossible. For every successful painter, sculptor, or photographer, there are probably dozens of gallery artists who are struggling to make ends meet. You have to be able to schmooze art gallery owners, make the right connections with art patrons, and generally make an impression on the world of fine art.
Fortunately, the World Wide Web has really leveled the painting field. Nowadays, many of the works that are bought and sold are marketed on virtual art galleries. A lot of people are quick to discount them as a medium for selling art. They correctly point out that such things as stroke texture, luster, and even some of the subtleties of shading can't be communicated over computer screens. They are right, but this is hardly the point.
The point is that an online art gallery allows people all over the world to look at your art. Even if these virtual art galleries can not completely reproduce every nuance of your works, they certainly provide enough to give people a taste. I have some pretty good connections, but I still would say that I have sold the majority of my work through online art galleries. It is far and away the most lucrative way to go about it.
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