Fine Art
With more and more people who have income available and looking for ways to spend it, Vintage fine art is becoming an increasingly popular medium to beautify the house. While many of these pieces are purchased in art galleries in cities around the world, the most prestigious works are sold at the fine art auction to the highest bidder. At the same time, if you are thinking of buying a work of art, it is important to understand the complicated process that continues behind the scenes.
The largest auction houses are Sotheby’s, Christies, Lyon & Turnbull, and Bonhams. In a given year, the billions of dollars of art can cross the counter in each of these famous institutions. Each house has several auctions a week, with inventories that go from furniture to random pieces of Americana to antique fine art. This article will serve as a basic primer for the process of purchasing the latter.
Most of the auction houses have online catalogs and schedules that you can order to determine when the items that you may want to offer. Once you have found something, you can buy it in person, through a proxy, or through an absent offer.
The most exciting way to buy that perfect piece of art is to attend the auction. There is nothing like the high octane offer atmosphere, and taking that second decision to raise your palette and, later, the price. This also guarantees that you complete the control over the process, and the ability to quickly react to other offers of bidders.
However, if you can not reach the auction house, other options abound, however. Most auction houses are holding online auction. Simply obtain a form of a catalog or website and return it through fax or publication with the maximum price that is willing to pay for a particular piece of art. You can also use these forms to register for telephone bidding, by which a representative of the auction house remains on the line throughout the auction that acts as the average man between you and the auctioneer.
Once it has been announced as the winner of the auction, it is time to pay for its new precious possession. In most cases, credit cards are accepted, although not all locations accept plastic. For higher price items, most auction houses request that you pay through your bank with a cashier’s check. You can pay immediately, or request an invoice, after which it gives you an assigned time to make the payment.
The purchase of art in the auction is an excellent way to explore the world of art. If you are lucky and you have your research, it is totally possible to find a robbery. The auction itself can also provide a great story to accompany the beautiful new piece hanging over its mantle place
The phrase “art for art’s sake” expresses the spirit of fine art, which holds more aesthetic appeal than functional value. It is this very characteristic which distinguishes antique fine art from crafts, which has a utilitarian focus. Tracing back the history of human civilization, one can find examples of various artifacts crafted for the sole purpose of aesthetics.
Fine art is all about a single artist completing a piece or series, whereas applied art and craft involves dividing tasks among people with specialized skills.
2 Most Beautiful Forms of Fine Art
Oil Painting
The egg tempera technique paved the way for antique oil paintings. The earliest oil paintings date back to the 7th century CE. Oil paints are one of the great classic media.
Oil painting is one of the most widely practiced forms of fine art. Pigments are suspended in drying oils, including linseed oil, walnut oil, poppy seed oil, and safflower oil. Several oils can be used in the same oil painting to achieve a particular outcome. The consistency of color paste has an important role to play in the quality of oil paints. A smooth paste is required
Oil painting, painting in oil colors, a medium consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils. The outstanding facility with which fusion of tones or color is achieved makes it unique among fluid painting mediums; at the same time, satisfactory linear treatment and crisp effects are easily obtained.
Sculpture:
Sculpture is another noteworthy form of fine art. The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is one of the famous sculptures in the world. Carved in limestone bedrock, the Sphinx measures 66 feet high by 240 feet long. For the early Greeks, the Egyptian style set an artistic foundation with block-like carvings in stone. Sculptures soon gained a realistic look with the increasing use of marble and bronze. The Kritios Boy in marble is one of the best examples of Greek sculpture. Hence, many vintage sculptures depicted Greek gods. The subject of sculpture changed with the rise of Christianity under Emperor Constantine.
The Renaissance period was an age of renewed learning and the rebirth of cultural, political, and artistic ideas. Some of the master sculptors of the Renaissance age included Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, and Raphael. A famous anecdote associated with Michelangelo emphasizes the prominence of sculpture in this period.
Over time, the use of sculptures evolved such that by the start of civilization, people used them as a representation of gods. Ancient kings who wished to immortalize their rules had statues made in their likeness, and in so doing, they led to the beginning of portrait sculpting, an art that continues to date.
Sculpture is promiscuous, wayward and at its best badly behaved. Vintage Sculpture demands practice, risky stuff, of doing and doing and doing, and the occasional undoing. Carvings and Sculptures questions our relationship to objects, to search for the other side of the commodity object. An art that is concerned with other ways to think and feel. Sculpture is a great pretender; a fabrication that points to our need for storytelling and artifice. We have art so we won’t die of truth.
