ARTPAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Is It Really Worth It?

WHAT IS ART?

According to Dictionary.com,

[Art is] The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Artist: Jackson PollockYear: 1948Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $140 millionCurrency Adjusted: $149.70 million

Top Five Most Expensive

Paintings

Artist: Gustav KlimtYear: 1907Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $135 millionCurrency Adjusted: $144.4 million

Artist: Willem de KooningYear: 1953Year of Sale: 2006Sale Price: $137.5 millionCurrency Adjusted: $147 million

Artist: Vincent Van GoghYear: 1890Year of Sale: 1990Sale Price: $82.5 millionCurrency Adjusted: $136.1 million

Artist: Pierre-Auguste RenoirYear: 1876Year of Sale: 1990Sale Price: $78.1 millionCurrency Adjusted: $128.8 million

ABSTRACTION

When looking at these ‘Top 5 Most Expensive Paintings’ a pattern seemed to emerge

As a group, it is clear to us that the average consumer feels a connection to the abstract art

WHY MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING ORIGINAL ART TODAY?

Understanding of Interior Design

Color psychology

Beauty They can literally stare at the same art piece

over a period of days and each time come away with new insight as to its meaning.

The Rise in Disposable Income Greater ability to buy original art Attraction

a tendency to want something unique rather than mass produced

Symbol of success

Greater Amount of Information on Original Art in the Press Hardly any newspaper is produced without one

article or another regarding paintings, sculptures and photography

On A Local Level…

• A local chicken has painted a picture with the help of his owner

• Merrimack, NH• $550• Acryllic Paint• Sold on Ebay

POPULAR ABSTRACT MOVEMENTS

De Stijl 1917-1931

Dada Movement 1916-1923

DE STIJL This inspired a lot of artists in the Dada

period

Artists of this movement seek to express a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order.

Achieve pure abstraction by reducing to the essentials of form and color they simplified visual compositions to the

vertical and horizontal directions used only primary colors along with black and

white.

PIET MONDRIAN

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

“I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true…”

DADA MOVEMENT

Movement Involved Visual Art Literature Poetry Anti-war politics through a rejection of the

prevailing standards in art Purpose was to ridicule other artists

Show meaninglessness of the modern world

MARCEL DUCHAMP

Fountain, 1917

IS IT WORTH IT TO YOU?