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THE RESURGENCE OF PAINTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
As I touched on in a previous article, Digital Art had a great surge a few years ago; with prices for what is basically pixels on a screen going well into 6 figures. However, that market has now crashed, while at the same time there has been a resurgence in Painting and it has been reported in a few publications that figurative painting is on the rise as well.
This is all good news. Painting is still popular because it works wherever you put it. We have been putting pictures on walls, or even painting pictures on walls to tell stories for at least tens of thousands of years. Long before we put TVs on our walls to look at moving pictures to tell stories, convey messages and which is now the dominant way we consume ‘art.’ If you can call TV and Film art. It seems so, as everyone likes to be called an artist - Performing Artist (Actor), Recording Artist (Musician) and then Artist (Artist), so maybe everything is art and everyone is an artist.
The word artist comes from artisan, which is the process of making a material object. I believe that there is a difference between this and performing in a film or performing/playing music. Or when people refer to art in sport, as this is skill and ability only, as you don’t produce an end ‘product’ in sport or a game.
Some art writers talk of painting going out of our daily lives, but I’m not sure I agree, as I can’t see what it has been replaced with. As in most pubs, restaurants, offices, homes, etc you still see pictures or art in some form. I think that rather it can be assumed that we
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abandoned painting for prints for a while, but now it is on the rise again. Also that it is more of the case that the appetite for Conceptual Art is declining, as when artists try and out shock or amaze artists that have gone before them, there is only so far they can go to the extreme before it becomes meaningless. The Turner Prize this year has again come in for criticism, in that is out dated and irrelevant, with its insistence to try and be as politically correct as possible, at the expense of the quality of the art. I agree that it has long been more about making a statement on the world, than finding the best art and artists.
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