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Are you dreaming of starting your art collection? Check out this insightful guide on "How to Get Started as an Art Collector" from The Art Newspaper. Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or a budding collector, this article is your roadmap to building a collection that reflects your passion and style. https://lnkd.in/dB3yrbbK

J O H N A T H E R T O N (b.1977) 🟡 Welcoming one of our newly represented international artists. Now exclusive in Malta with Marie Gallery 5 ⚪ Atherton’s formal abstract works are unequivocally in the tradition of modern abstract art. At first sight, they are to be appreciated entirely in the realm of pure visual abstraction and the pleasures of viewing carefully composed colour and form. However, counter-intuitively to this tradition, Atherton’s work emerges not from the lineage of abstract art but from that of portraiture through the commemorative representations found in an anonymous school yearbook from the 1980s.   The yearbook is a seemingly arbitrary starting point but is infact a quite unpredictable and fortuitous beginning. It is an object of commemoration and, for many people, an object of nostalgia, distance, and lost time, it symbolises a rite of passage, a point of departure, it captures a moment of infinite possibility, the imminent journey to an unknown destination.   Atherton’s work is screen printed onto different papers and collaged together but Atherton thinks of himself as a painter, the piles of paper, his colour palette. These layers of materials and imagery embody a vast hinterland of narratives and creative ideas that echo back to the yearbook. The creative journey and the personal narratives are encoded in the stratification of materials with only the most recent layer fully visible. #contemporary #galleryrepresentation #feature #artistfeature

The Art of Hanging Artwork Are there really hard and fast rules when it comes to selecting and installing artwork in your home? What best practices for hanging artwork are based on science, and what is up to the viewer to decide? Like in art itself, the answers to these questions can often be controversial. Read on to find out how to maximize the space and impact of your rooms through art. Link to article https://lnkd.in/ejs9zCaB

“The best way to think about Georgia’s sprawling indictment against Donald Trump and his allies is that it is a case about lies. It’s about lying, conspiring to lie and attempting to coax, coerce, and cajole others into lying.” —David French, New York Times August 20, 2023 Angie Wang and I designed and published “Trump: Lord of the Lies” in the summer of 2020. The design revisits our 2016 poster “Trump 24K Gold-Plated” and features the same four whirling letter Ts. This time, however, four flies—agents of pestilence and rot—issue from the central motif. As we wrote at the time, via platforms like Twitter and Fox News, Trump’s lies are a contagion that spread to the four corners of the earth. We successfully Kickstarted this poster in the summer of 2020 with the help of 75 funders. COLLECTIONS • Merrill C. Berman Collection, Rye, New York • Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Los Angeles • Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen • Letterform Archive, San Francisco • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) • Museum für Gestaltung Zürich • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg • Poster Museum at Wilanów, Warsaw #agitprop #protest #protestposters #propaganda #propagandaposter #posterdesign #posters #symbols #icons #iconography #emboss #embossing #foilstamp #foilstamping #graphicdesign #ccagd #californiacollegeofthearts #ccarts #papersirens #designisplay #designisplay_markfox #designisplay_agitprop

It‘s been a long time coming but finally my article „Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit“ is published! Read, share, and let me know what your thoughts are. https://lnkd.in/g6UvjszR

Take a look at my recent Behance post! A series of profound contemporary art that delves into the complex interplay between human dynamics and the abstract geometries that represent the structures of our society. The title of this series, "Convergence of Intentions," speaks to the thematic essence of the artwork. As you take in this piece, consider the perspectives and emotions it invokes in you. Does it prompt a feeling of solidarity or isolation? Does it speak to the organizational systems we are all part of, or perhaps to the support networks that underlie our social fabric? The beauty of such work lies in its openness to interpretation, allowing each of us to find a personal connection within the collective portrayal. Feel free to spend a few moments here. Let the details wash over you, and see what conversations it starts or what thoughts it brings to the forefront of your mind. These drawings are a testament to the power of visual art to communicate complex, layered themes that resonate on a deeply human level.

I get a lot of questions from students about how to talk about art, whether their own or others’. Here’s a breakdown/guide of what to think about and discuss that I’ve developed over the years, with invaluable input from other artists (too many to name; sculptor John Newman providrd the genesis for it). Thoughts? Suggestions? 1. The Empirical: what is actually there/describe what you see; 2. The Procedural & Material: How is it made, what it is made of; 3. The Conceptual: the ideas, subject matter, content, intention, ambition, what is the goal of the work; 4. The Contextual: Where does it fit with other art and/or any other relevant contexts, for example: politics, fashion, architecture, technology, etc.; 5. Sum up with how you see the work in light of the conversations around contemporary art.

Taking a 7yr old and 5yr old to a museum to see the Dutch masterpieces was an inter-city adventure and a great lesson for me, perhaps for different reasons than you might think! Yes it was loud, fast and chaotic...the whole tour lasted about 45 minutes as they glossed over the classics and found joy in the animals, the naked breasts and of course, running up and down the staircases. But in the few moments that we actually looked and talked about the art, there was gold. Here's a sample of the full blog: 1: Kids don’t care about Rembrandt and maybe we shouldn’t either? "It's only a painting mum. Who cares" I loved this conversation, because, of course that is their first reaction! Why bother looking at this painting when there are things to climb on, run round, and explore in the real world. A great point well made - lets not take the art too seriously! 2: It’s not about the art. They wanted the story behind the art. Why did he paint this? Who is the dead man? Who are the other men? Why are they there? Where are the girls? Why is there no blood dripping? Why are they cutting him open? This is the point of the art. It's not a fact to be learned and repeated, but a way of thinking about ourselves and the world. It's a training ground for asking questions, seeing our humanity reflected and finding out about our past. 3. We all see art through our own perspective 4. We probably shouldn’t look at art for too long To read the full blog, head to paingeeks.community to join our free community or become a Super Geek and access all our videos, workshops and other community resources.

What is Art Interpretation | Seed Gallery Art Interpretation is a stage in the work of art criticism in which one identifies the work's expressive qualities, for instance, the meaning in the work, the mood created by the piece and the ideas being communicated by the artist to the viewer. A work of art can be very complicated and may be interpreted in different ways by different professional, art critics, bloggers and groups. However, in art criticism, one's interpretation is personal, and it is based upon the information one has visually, eruditely, emotionally, revelatory and spiritually gathered from the composition. In essence, effective interpretation is only possible upon a basic evaluation, careful analysis, meditative interrogation and thoughtful consideration of the entire composition. The Seed Gallery Art History and Economics Glossary contains a resourceful inventory of key terms, phrases, and relevant vocabulary associated with art and design history, movements, contemporary art market economics and design concepts. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dcdF9Hz4 #artist #contemporaryart #art #artgallery #education #culture #movement #collector #artcollector #artcollectors #artmarket #knowledge #invest #artinvestment #seedgallery #gallery #history #arthistory #economics #arteconomics #artmovement #design #artanddesign #interiordesign #graphicdesign

My review of "Anselm" in the Arts Fuse. #wimwenders #anselmkiefer #anselm #documentaries #doctalk #artsfuse Go to https://lnkd.in/eiGVeCk3 or link in bio.