South Georgia Art Gallery
Posted on | November 14, 2009 | No Comments
Posting have been few in thttp://southgeorgiaart.com/wp-admin/media-upload.php?post_id=318&type=image&TB_iframe=true&width=640&height=669he past few weeks. We were busy designing an online gallery for the South Georgia Art Group. We currently are featuring the work of four artists: Pat Burns (Forsyth, GA), Derek McCrea (Columbus, GA), Donna Schaeffer (Macon, GA) and Leslie Hoops-Wallace (Bonaire, GA). The Gallery hosts a diverse range of subjects including military, cityscapes, landscapes and pets.
We also carry artistic coffee mugs and note pads which selected works of art. The Gallery will continue to grow so check back often to see what artists in South Georgia have to offer.
South Georgia Gallery
www.southgeorgiagallery.com
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The Monroe County Holiday Creations Marketplace
Posted on | October 23, 2009 | No Comments
The Monroe County Arts Alliance Gallery will host their Holiday Creations Market Place November 4th through December 19th. Artwork and crafts of the will be available for purchase including decorations and a variety of items for gift giving.
Contact the Alliance
Wednesday – Friday 11:00 – 4:00
(478) 994-8668
New Website for Morris Museum
Posted on | October 10, 2009 | No Comments
The Morris Museum Of Art in Augusta has launch a new website – http://www.themorris.org
Upcoming events include:
- Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan
NOVEMBER 21, 2009–JANUARY 31, 2010 - Deep Sea: Drawings by William Golding
DECEMBER 12, 2009–MARCH 7, 2010 - American Scene Painting from the John and Susan Horseman Collection
MARCH 6–MAY 30, 2010
Check here for additional information on these exhibits and others.
Expressionism
Posted on | October 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The Expressionism was a popular movement in the arts during the early part of twentieth century (1905-1925). Expressionist art is often seen as a rebellious response to the artistic styles of Realism and Naturalism which accurately represented people, objects and scenes
ss they appeared in everyday life and their natural settings.
With Expressionism, the focus was on artists’ emotional response to subjects and events. Their work tend to show a distortion of reality as a means of conveying intense and extreme emotions. Bold colors, exaggeration of form, contours, spatial perspective, primitivism characterized many of the works from that period. Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and Edvard Munch “The Scream” are representative of the Expressionist art style.
Expressionist art has intended results: a subjectiveness of personal feelings over objective observations; expressions of the artist’s emotional state over the reality of people, things and events as they actually exist in life.
Reference Links:
Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art)
Expressionism (Taschen Basic Art)
Expressionism (Art of Century)
Brucke: The Birth of Expressionism 1905-1913
The Expressionists (World of Art)
Artist Profile: Julie Bowland
Posted on | September 30, 2009 | Comments Off
“I love nature and I love to paint so I go out and paint directly from the landscape. There is something about being outside in a beautiful place dealing with heat, wind, bugs, changing light and other unpredictable elements of nature that I find artistically inspiring. With paint, texture and color, I respond and react to the engery of a place”
Bold and exciting are two characteristics that come to mind when viewing the work of Julie Bowland. Her style represents the essence of expressionism, very vivid and very emotional in its impact. Through her travels, Julie is in constant search of new and challenging landscapes. It is the end result of her interpretation that gives us pleasure from the beauty of the site.
“An Expressionist at heart, I am not so much describing a place as expressing a feeling”.>
Juliie is an Associate Professor at Valdosta State University and Director of the Fine Art Gallery at the University. Her work is currently on display at the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill Arts Council.
For more information about her work or to purchase Julie’s art visit her website: http://www.juliebowland.com/
When You buy a Work of Art You Buy More Than a Piece of Art
Posted on | September 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Artists, like each of us, go through various stages in life. There tend to be a general misunderstanding of the mystique that surrounds the inspiration and creativity of artists. Drug use, alcoholism, neurosis, psychological instability, depression, sexual deviation and poverty stricken have defined artistic motivation of many an artist.
The fact is, however, that there are many talented artists who are “mainstream normal” who see their artistic pursuits as a life calling, the same as a doctor, a scientist or school teacher. For the artist, their work is their way of interpreting the world, life, politics, human intimacy, and passion. So when you acquire the work of such an artist, you are becoming an intimate part of his world and embracing the spirit of what he is communicating through his work.
In the absence of a sales pitch by a dealer or gallery employee, something draws you to a certain piece of art. What is it? To understand your connection to the work in question, it is important to know more than the name of the artist who created it. The gallery owner can start your process of discovery by telling more about the background of the artist and point you to other work he has completed. In the process of self education of defines good art in comparison to bad art, apply the principles you learn to the art in question as well as to other works completed by the artist. Do you see a theme, a pattern emerge?
Buying art because you connect with it is the best motivation for acquiring a piece. Meeting the artist and appreciating the origin of his inspiration will intensify this connection. Art is more than a decorative asset. It speaks to you aesthetically, emotionally, maybe intellectually. As an art buyer, you join a select group of individuals who can take art and artists to a level beyond commercialism. Art can embrace politics, cultural values, societal movements, controversy, historical debates, personal pleasures, disagreements, maybe even the potential of capital gain. One thing is for sure, the world of art is not dull, and with the right mindset to appreciate the value of art as art, you will embark on a journey that will introduce you to individual artists, art movements and excitements that can last a lifetime. When You buy a Work of Art You Buy More Than a Piece of Art, you are buying an experience.
Books on Art
Posted on | September 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Learning about art is a life-long adventure. Start a library for books about art. Below are five books for recommended reading, covering art history and critique.
The Success and Failure of Picasso 
By John Berger
Pablo Picasso was revolutionary in the way he approached his art. Berger paints a profile of Picasso that shows him a product his time and how he reacted to its system, culture and values.
The Shock of The New: The Hundred-Year History of Modern Art Its Rise, Its Dazzling Achievement, It’s Fall
By Robert Hughes
From Amazon.com Review: When it first appeared Robert Hughes’s book was hailed as ‘probably the best introduction to modern art available to the general reader’, and the years that followed have established it as a classic. This edition brings us into the 1990s and confronts art with a powerful challenge for its future. It combines style and wit, anecdote and scholarship to encourage you to look at art with new eyes.
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Robert Hughes
From Amazon.com Review: This collection brings together over 90 essays, many of which have already appeared in major journals. Hughes considers the Masters, 19th-century art and artists, the Modernist spirit, American and European painters, and contemporary artists in prose that is historically informative, understandable, witty, and often opinionated. Perhaps most interesting is Hughes’s introduction, a recognition and partial analysis of New York City’s decline as the center of the art world. This well-written, thought-provoking collection will appeal to most who find art and the art world important and entertaining.
The Lives of the Artists Volume 1
By Girogio Vasari
(Paperback)
From Amazon.com Review: Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi’s crucifix; and, Michelangelo’s painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art.
Lives of the Artists Volume 2
By Girogio Vasari
(Paperback)
From Amazon.com Review: In his “Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance”, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano’s startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari’s own early career. Vasari’s original and soaring vision plus his acute aesthetic judgments have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.
Buying Art – It’s Personal
Posted on | September 13, 2009 | No Comments
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Buying an art piece is a personal experience for Charles and Irene W. of Chicago, IL. “I see something I like then I see how I can afford it” says Irene, who along with her husband tries to buy at least one piece of art a year. Irene and Charles acquired one of my art pieces about two years ago entitled TerraCotta Unused. “It was the first acrylic painting we purchased; we bought it for the color scheme and texture” Irene said.
How a piece fit into the décor of a particular room in their house is another contributing factor to the decision to buy a piece of art for Charles and Irene. “We try to budget a maximum of $2,000 for any piece of work we buy so we don’t buy a lot of pieces” says Irene. Another piece they acquired is an oil painting by artist Virginia Huntington – Callas dans un vase. Irene saw the painting at a gallery in Wisconsin during a shopping trip. I knew I had to have it so I convinced Charles to buy it for me as an anniversary present”. They drive over two hours from Chicago to Kenosha, Wisconsin a couple of weeks later to purchase the piece.
The most recent acquisition to Charles and Irene’s collection is a mental scripture. They bought it, because they liked it. Charles and Irene are typical of many individuals who buy art. They buy what they like making the decision to buy a work of art – personal.
Robert Morris Museum of Art
Posted on | September 10, 2009 | No Comments
The Morris Museum of Art was one of the first museums dedicated to the art and artists of the American South. The Museum holds a collection approaching 5,000 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures. Art work covers a period starting with the late-eighteenth century to the present.
The Museum also houses the Center for the Study of Southern Art, a reference and research facility featuring thousands of volumes and periodicals pertaining to southern art, culture and art history.
The main exhibits include:
- Antebellum Portraiture
- Civil War Art: A Southern Perspective (1861 t0 1865)
- Still-Life
- Impressionism in the South
- Landscapes
- Late-Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art
- Work of Georgian Self-Taught Artists
Click here for a Virtual Tour of The Morris Museum of Art
The Morris Museum of the Arts
1 Tenth Street
Augusta, Georgia 30901
706-724-7501
Art – If You Like It, It’s Never a Bad Investment
Posted on | September 8, 2009 | No Comments
In a previous post, we discussed the importance of keeping information on the type of art that appeals to you and the various artists whose work you admired. If you meet an artist whose work you want to collect, try to stay in contact. Keeping track of the artist’s schedule through a gallery, his website or art fair will keep you updated concerning any buzz about his work, price increases or any increased visibility in the art market. Once the decision is made for the actual acquisition of art pieces, you want to make sure that your collection grows according to some cohesive plan. Otherwise you may end up with many unrelated pieces that show a haphazard array of medium and style.
You want your art collection to reflect your personal preferences as to what you consider good art. As your knowledge of the art world grows, your level of appreciation and eye to discern the potential of the work of an relative unknown artist will expand. The individuality you bring to your collection strategy as to why certain types of art appeal or not appeal to you defines difference and uniqueness of your collection from everyone else. Many times this entails going against the popular trend or beyond the conventional at a given point in time.
As your knowledge of in art grows, you may wish to purchase more pricier work from more established artist. Starting out, if you like it and can afford it, buy it. You will receive many years of enjoyment from a fine work of art. It is even better if you give a local artist in your community a chance. You may be surprise as you follow his progress that you where there at the beginning. Not a bad situation to be in as an art collector.
South Georgia Art Gallery
