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Being thankful for art

By On November 17, 2011 · 4 Comments

With Thanksgiving coming up next week, it’s the time of year to be taking a moment to reflect and think about what we have to be thankful for in our lives. For many of us, it’s a wide-ranging list – from family, to friends, to hobbies, to chocolate! Everyone has a slightly different list, with varying priorities and concerns, and of course these change from year to year and month to month depending on what’s going on in our lives at any given time.

But there’s something all the readers of this blog share, and that’s a love for art. There is a particular value in the part of our lives that touches our artistic, creative side, and it’s worthwhile taking a little time to think about what this aspect of [...]

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Guest Post: Buying Art from the Heart by Angela Di Bello

By On October 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve always been interested in what motivates artists to create, and how they choose their subjects or themes. Although there is, naturally, a good deal of variation as to detail, there is a very strong uniting feature in the answers I have received over the years: Artists paint (/sculpt/draw/photograph) what they love, or what moves them deeply in some way. That is what motivates them, the ability to produce something that speaks to what is dearest to them and deepest inside them, and the need to make use of that ability.

I had never really considered things from the other end before – the question of what motivates people to buy art, or what makes them choose what they do. So often we hear of art purchases in terms of investment or ultimate financial gain, or as a sort of status-earning decision. It was our Gallery Director, Angela Di Bello, [...]

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