Contemporary Art World -101

Remember what I said before – you have to look, look, and look some more.  The more you look, the faster you learn to recognize clichés.  So often a newbie art looker will be totally impressed by the realism in a picture, but then,  after looking at millions of similar pictures –  landscapes, ducks, etc.   come to recognize  that none of these hundreds of  paintings have anything  unique  in their style.  You simply cannot tell the paintings of one artist from another.    In fact, anyone can learn how to paint if they want to learn and sometimes it seems to me as if everyone is an artist.   Making a nice painting is not  hard work but making an original painting is.  Continue reading What should I look for in a good painting?…