Author: David Tatham
We hear many stories of artists living fanciful lives, enjoying all the pleasures and pains that life can throw at them. But what of the hardworking serious artists in their everyday lives.
From an early age, most professional artists would enjoy, and have an aptitude for painting and drawing. It is a very small percentage people that become household names across the planet. Time and place is always an important factor for success, but the greatest ingredient is ...
undoubtedly perseverance and hard work; physical and mental.
It is essential from the point of recognition, that the public desire to view the work of a painter. The artist 'touch' a part of the soul that had until then locked awy such feelings and emmotions.
Pre ninteen hundreds, painting was used to a certain extent as photography is used today. ie. to record certain events and people. However unlike photography art has always had a much 'looser rein'. This can easily be seen in paintings by the great masters, Michael Angelo, the Rennaisance painters, who could create an entire story with the use of colours and shapes. Artists usually have a feeling for a certain aspect in life's richness.
The northern British artist L.S.Lowry drew images of the poor struggling people, and their work places, the great northern factories where he found himself living.David Shepherd feels he owes a great debt to the animals he has painted, which have made him one of the world's greatest wildlife artists, and it gives him pleasure to help save many of the creatures on Earth that are now facing extinction, mainly through man's unrelenting greed, sadly. Sir William Russell Flint became a watercolourist after working as a medical artist, sketching various anatomical conditions throughout the war. He progressed to a wonderful display of architecture, long flowing robes and naked female form that has never been surpassed, and gained him the reputation of being of one of the finest watercolourists the world has ever seen.
This style of work offers something quite different to what we may call 'contemporary' art. A certain amount of professional marketing is always necessary to bring the work to the public, but the latter type relies very heavily on not only heavy marketing and hype, one might say, a little like 'the emperor who wore no clothes'. There is a saying that people can be tricked sometimes and even a few peopler can be tricked all the while, but it isd sure that everyone cannot be tricked all the while." With enormous quatities of money changing hands, like the cement between the bricks, this is usually what happens, but eventually the ultimate test for geat art is.. Does it or will it stand the test of time? If the answer is yes, then the work has something that will be passed on to generations. And if time fades the interest and excitement of the work, then it will disappear under the many work that have passed before.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-art-of-today-1822369.html
About the Author
Over the years, art dealer David Tatham has seen the rise of many now famous artists; one such man is David Shepherd, and an extensive collection of his signed limited edition prints and original paintings can be viewed and bought from the website http://www.davidshepherd.com
We hear many stories of artists living fanciful lives, enjoying all the pleasures and pains that life can throw at them. But what of the hardworking serious artists in their everyday lives.
From an early age, most professional artists would enjoy, and have an aptitude for painting and drawing. It is a very small percentage people that become household names across the planet. Time and place is always an important factor for success, but the greatest ingredient is ...
undoubtedly perseverance and hard work; physical and mental.
It is essential from the point of recognition, that the public desire to view the work of a painter. The artist 'touch' a part of the soul that had until then locked awy such feelings and emmotions.
Pre ninteen hundreds, painting was used to a certain extent as photography is used today. ie. to record certain events and people. However unlike photography art has always had a much 'looser rein'. This can easily be seen in paintings by the great masters, Michael Angelo, the Rennaisance painters, who could create an entire story with the use of colours and shapes. Artists usually have a feeling for a certain aspect in life's richness.
The northern British artist L.S.Lowry drew images of the poor struggling people, and their work places, the great northern factories where he found himself living.David Shepherd feels he owes a great debt to the animals he has painted, which have made him one of the world's greatest wildlife artists, and it gives him pleasure to help save many of the creatures on Earth that are now facing extinction, mainly through man's unrelenting greed, sadly. Sir William Russell Flint became a watercolourist after working as a medical artist, sketching various anatomical conditions throughout the war. He progressed to a wonderful display of architecture, long flowing robes and naked female form that has never been surpassed, and gained him the reputation of being of one of the finest watercolourists the world has ever seen.
This style of work offers something quite different to what we may call 'contemporary' art. A certain amount of professional marketing is always necessary to bring the work to the public, but the latter type relies very heavily on not only heavy marketing and hype, one might say, a little like 'the emperor who wore no clothes'. There is a saying that people can be tricked sometimes and even a few peopler can be tricked all the while, but it isd sure that everyone cannot be tricked all the while." With enormous quatities of money changing hands, like the cement between the bricks, this is usually what happens, but eventually the ultimate test for geat art is.. Does it or will it stand the test of time? If the answer is yes, then the work has something that will be passed on to generations. And if time fades the interest and excitement of the work, then it will disappear under the many work that have passed before.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-art-of-today-1822369.html
About the Author
Over the years, art dealer David Tatham has seen the rise of many now famous artists; one such man is David Shepherd, and an extensive collection of his signed limited edition prints and original paintings can be viewed and bought from the website http://www.davidshepherd.com
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