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Art Past, Present and Future

Art Past, Present and Future. Is It Really Worth It?. What Is Art?. According to Dictionary.com, [Art is] The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Top Five

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Art Past, Present and Future

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  1. ArtPast, Present and Future Is It Really Worth It?

  2. What Is Art? According to Dictionary.com, [Art is] The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

  3. Top Five Most Expensive Paintings Artist: Jackson Pollock Year: 1948 Year of Sale: 2006 Sale Price: $140 million Currency Adjusted: $149.70 million

  4. Artist: Gustav Klimt Year: 1907 Year of Sale: 2006 Sale Price: $135 million Currency Adjusted: $144.4 million Artist: Willem de Kooning Year: 1953 Year of Sale: 2006 Sale Price: $137.5 million Currency Adjusted: $147 million

  5. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Year: 1876 Year of Sale: 1990 Sale Price: $78.1 million Currency Adjusted: $128.8 million Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Year: 1890 Year of Sale: 1990 Sale Price: $82.5 million Currency Adjusted: $136.1 million

  6. Abstraction • When looking at these ‘Top 5 Most Expensive Paintings’ a pattern seemed to emerge • As a group, it is clear to us that the average consumer feels a connection to the abstract art

  7. Why more people are buying original art today? • Understanding of Interior Design • Color psychology

  8. Beauty • They can literally stare at the same art piece over a period of days and each time come away with new insight as to its meaning.

  9. The Rise in Disposable Income • Greater ability to buy original art • Attraction • a tendency to want something uniquerather than mass produced • Symbol of success

  10. Greater Amount of Information on Original Art in the Press • Hardly any newspaper is produced without one article or another regarding paintings, sculptures and photography

  11. On A Local Level… A local chicken has painted a picture with the help of his owner Merrimack, NH $550 Acryllic Paint Sold on Ebay

  12. Popular Abstract Movements • De Stijl 1917-1931 • Dada Movement 1916-1923

  13. De Stijl • This inspired a lot of artists in the Dada period • Artists of this movement seek to express a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order. • Achieve pure abstraction by reducing to the essentials of form and color • they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions • used only primarycolorsalong with black and white.

  14. Piet Mondrian Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

  15. “I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true…”

  16. Dada Movement • Movement Involved • Visual Art • Literature • Poetry • Anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art • Purpose was to ridicule other artists • Show meaninglessness of the modern world

  17. Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917

  18. Is it worth it to you?

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