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A new era of value equality is unfolding among the worlds' artists. In the case of the price differential between the work of the contemporary 'art stars' and emerging artists, consider for a moment an important influencing factor also found in the stock market: uncertainty. For instance, a company operating in an industry where a key competitor suddenly becomes the subject of an investigation will undoubtedly see its stock price at least temporarily negatively impacted regardless of culpability simply because of investor uncertainty. Lack of knowledge in any industry acts as a damper on value, and let's face it, the famous are such because to date they've received the entirety of the spotlight from the art market apparatchik, hence relatively little is known about those without such support.
However, the internet is THE equalizing factor. In an era where the internet functions as the facilitator of the distribution and promotion of the work of emerging artists from all over the world, the era of the 'art star' deemed such by the critics, curators and self-appointed art experts has come to a necessary end.
In order to assess value and predict the direction of prices with respect to any asset, including stocks, it's instructive to look at comparables. The work of the Old Masters and other dead artists has stood the test of time thus guaranteeing its worth in the form of the stratospheric prices garnered today. What is less clear is the rationale for the difference between the prices paid for the work of many contemporary artists and the much larger group of emerging artists. In any other industry, over time such a relative value disparity would disappear.
Given the increasing recognition of the value of art today, equalization of the prices between discovered and undiscovered artists is inevitable if only because the relative value of the latter is highlighted. In the case of two stocks with equal earnings generating power where the sole exogenous, differentiating factor is the amount of 'coverage' by Wall Street that each receives, the difference in price to the long-term investor highlights the less expensive as a powerful value, and the common sense choice. Yes, the value stock may lack the imprematur of the big Wall Street analysts, but how many times have they overlooked a diamond covered in coal dust? Emerging artists are the greatest investment opportunity that no one has ever heard of. A new era of value equality is unfolding among the worlds' artists. In the case... more
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about the artist
1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004 and 2005 Participated “ International Art Expo “ held in Shanghai, China . The works were purchased and collected by the collectors of Peking,Shanghai,Hong Kong,Taiwan...etc. 2004 Participated “The Art Fair Zurich “ in Switzerland. All the works were sold out and won a good reputation from the buyers and art collectors. 2006 Participate the “Art Ireland “ and exhibition in the Marziart Gallery Of Germany. 2007 Participate the Artexpo New York 2007 2007 Personal exhibition be hold in Taiwan at March 2007.
artists' statement
I am a professional artist from China. The flower and garden are topic of my artworks. It is the eternal topic for human.The concept behind my work is creating a dialogue between a painting and its surroundings.about the artist
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about the artist
David J. Bookbinder was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. At age 6, inspired by the launching of Sputnik, he imagined himself a future space scientist. He started photographing in high school where, as yearbook editor, he took most of the candid pictures.
After college, he moved to New York City. There, for several years, he did black-and-white street photography, took pictures of musicians for a book he wrote on American folk music, shot an occasional record album cover, and worked part-time as a photojournalist.
In 2001, after a 20-year hiatus, Bookbinder bought a digital camera and started shooting again. The shift from straight black-and-white, wet-chemistry photography to shooting in color and manipulating images on a computer was literally an eye-opener. Bookbinder still takes pictures of street life, nature, and people, but his current preoccupation is with transforming photographs of flowers, stone, metal, wood, and the sky into mandala-like images.
Bookbinder's early influences included Walker Evans and Diane Arbus. The present work is inspired by the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, the nature photographs of Andreas Feininger, and the flower images of Harold Feinstein, with whom Bookbinder briefly studied.
Bookbinder lives north of Boston, MA. He works as a psychotherapist, primarily with artists and people with addictive behaviors. He is the author of four non-fiction books and is currently writing a memoir of the aftermath of a near-death experience.
artists' statement
My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. The experience of creating these mandalas is reminiscent of meditation.
My choice of the hexagram (the Star of David, "beloved" in Hebrew) as the organizing shape for these mandalas was subconscious, but I believe this choice was no accident. In many traditions, the Star of David, composed of two overlapping triangles, represents the reconciliation of opposites — male/female, fire/water, and so on. Their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. Listening to what the mandalas were telling me led me out of a dark place and, indirectly, to my decision to become a psychotherapist.
Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern psychology, believed mandalas are a pathway to the essential Self and used them in his own personal transformation. In a small way, as both mandala artist and psychotherapist, I carry on Jung's tradition. I display several of the flower mandalas in my treatment room, and from time to time they become part of discussions with clients. The combination of natural elements and digital manipulation seems both to stimulate and to relax them.
The current selection is part of a book-in-progress that pairs images with inspirational quotations such that each image-and-quote pair resonates with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
I hope publication of these images will further the process of harnessing the power of the mandala to heal.about the artist
David J. Bookbinder was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. At age... more
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How Urban Art is Changing the Art World
The traditional path to art world notoriety has usually included art school followed by showings in galleries, and being noticed and collected by well-known art patrons and eventually museums, with the accompanying media attention to keep it all going. Urban art has by all accounts turned this system on its head and instead of artists praying to start out in galleries they are finding their audience first, literally, out in the open, on the street. From there, with the masses telegraphing their preferences via the internet, the attention-getting artwork then moves into the galleries.
Artists' long-held frustration at often not being able to have their work seen in galleries has, in the case of Urban Art, found an outlet in having unlimited audiences able to view their art, thus propelling it into the galleries. In February, 2008 when Bono's Red auction was held in New York it was Banksy's work that set new price records even in the rarified company of work from some of the art world's most lauded producers. The Tate Modern in London, the world's most visited Modern Art Museum, in May hosted 'Street Art,' an exhibition during which an entire side of its building was utilized by Urban artists.
As accessibility has driven the meteoric rise of Urban Art sales worldwide, the availability of emerging artists' work on facilitating mechanism that is the internet will eventually yield the same trajectory.
Mural: by Rahmaan Static and R.K. Design mural Located at 47th St. and Lake Park, Hyde Park, Chicago, IL
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Art by Phototransformations @ CapucinesBlvd.com
My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. The experience of creating these mandalas is reminiscent of meditation.-David BinderArt by Phototransformations @ CapucinesBlvd.com
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Vincent Van Gogh quote opens for contempary artirst Maxim Bondarenko; art available at CapucinesBoulevard.comVincent Van Gogh quote opens for contempary artirst Maxim Bondarenko; art available at... more
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Charles Collins is known for his encouragement of other artists through his God in the Arts Foundation, which evolved out of a desire to encourage anyone who "believes that all life is like petals on the same flower." Ultimately, his work seeks to change our collective consciousness.
Most of his oil paintings are profoundly spiritual and evoke a strong sense of peace and timelessness. He begins with a charcoal drawing, adds a thin glaze with a dark color, terra green or burnt umber, which provides the base for light to reflect off. This is covered by an under painting -- when his images in the over painting are complete, he adds up to 30 glazes.
He has learned most of this on his own, by experimentation, though he has a degree in fine art from the Dallas Art Institute in Texas. His work is in collections all over the world and he is the first Taos artist to have painted an album cover for singer Michael Martin Murphey and another for Arlo Guthrie. His painting, "The Ambassadors Meet in Washington," was the first in the then 23-year history of Taos Invites Fall Arts Festival to win both Best in Contemporary and Best of Show.
"When I'm painting it's like creating an image of the attributes of God, creating the same vibration that created you, like a loop that feeds back to you in a circle of life, with the same resonance." - Charles Collins
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Découvrir la Valeur de l’Art
Bonjour, je m’appelle Cappy Price et je vous invite à Découvrir la Valeur de l’Art.
• Dollar contre Euro
o Tout le monde sait que l’économie américaine est en dégression
o Entre 2002 et 2007, le dollar a perdu près de 40% (pour cent) contre l’Euro. Rien qu’en 2007, le dollar est tombé de 10% et jusqu'à présent, c’est une perte de plus de 7%
• Marché Boursier
o Les principes fondamentaux d’économie nous rappellent que le marché boursier, qui se négocie actuellement autour de 150% de Produit Brut National, contre sa moyenne actuelle de 57%, est surestimé et vulnérable
• Couverture Excessive
o L’inflation et la couverture excessive ont rapidement dévalué l’importance des investissements traditionnels
o Les consommateurs recherchent des alternatives avec une capacité à préserver leur valeur économique a travers les périodes de turbulence
• Quote Brinson
o On estime l’art un investissement aussi précieux que l’or, l’argent et les francs suisses
o Historiquement, l’art se préserve bien pendant les crises économiques, y compris les guerres et récessions, et possède une valeur unique, lui donnant une protection de prix systématique
o A la fin de la journée, l’art n’est comparable a rien d’autre et il est démontré qu’il n’y aucune corrélation avec les mouvements boursiers
o En particulier pendant les crises de turbulence économique, l’art est un atout qui non seulement fait plaisir mais est aussi profitable
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Découvrir la Valeur de l’Art
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I am motivated by a prescience of the challenges to the human spirit, and my desire to depict its inherent unboundedness. Sometimes what I create is beautiful and sometimes it isn't. I believe that an artists' creation of powerful emotion within his audience is a prerequisite to meaningful communication. I am motivated by a prescience of the challenges to the human spirit, and my desire... more
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Boris Kudryavtsev practiced the landscape painting just in the open air. In his works we see the nature near Moscow in its season changes , as well as autumn and spring landscapes of Sudak environs in Crimea. Maybe it is precisely the small size of his miniature pictures, that helped him in any weather conditions and in spite of time shortage to cope with rather complicated landscape painting tasks – to find the special moments of nature’s beauty in its color, light and form. Instead of brush, he always used mastichine and with it he developed his filigree original technique which transmits the nature's shapes and rhythms and eloquently speaks of the artist's highly inspired character. Boris Kudryavtsev stopped his landscape painting in 1991. Boris Kudryavtsev practiced the landscape painting just in the open air. In his works... more
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Cappy Price talks about the investment value of emerging artist at the 28th Annual 7th Congressional District High School Art competitionCappy Price talks about the investment value of emerging artist at the 28th Annual 7th... more
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