Auctions on the Internet are much lacking in appeal in comparison with the excitement that reigns in the live sales room. Whoever has assisted a real event in one of the major houses will agree to that the virtual world is a bleak world. There is a parallel emotional affair in the ongoing controversy about […]
Entries from July 2008
Towards a live online-auction market
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Market insight
The space of painting
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments
The vast majority of easel paintings in history has been executed on a rectangular surface whose proportions approximate more or less the golden number. From perfect squares to ample parallelograms, the right-angled shape is a constant.
It seems that when painting migrated from its original mural setting, the most practical surface to transpose […]
Tags: Ideas on Art
The frame makes the painting
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
As Marcel Duchamp proved with his ‘Fountain’, any object can be made to look decent and any object can pretend to art if set within a clever framework. That the clothes make the man is an old truth. Any object has its environment, its inevitable setting.
Paintings have been framed ever since the portable image was […]
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