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The original Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair which will be the sixth annual artLA is scheduled during Sept. 30-October 3, 2011. This time International Contemporary Art Fair is going to be on a new and awesome location; the J.W.Marriott Ritz Carlton which is located in Downtown Los Angeles.

The luxurious J.W. Marriott Ritz Carlton has a climate controlled 25,000 sq. ft. column-free exhibit hall which is entered through a 3-story atrium, creating the most convenient and luxurious setting that maximizes your experience for L.A.’s premier contemporary art fair.

The original Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair which is famous as artLA, is a platform for innovative work. artLA actually is a common & the best platform for original contemporary Art not only from Los Angeles but also from the international galleries in conjunction with the dealers and galleries from across the U. It represents a gripping equilibrium of entrenched and up-coming promising artists.

artLA 2011 or International Contemporary Art Fair 2011 includes all traditional mediums along with film, video, modernist and contemporary furniture and design and architectural innovations that were part of the progressive post-war art movement in the Los Angeles region that continues today.  The fair will also include related lectures, sessions, trainings, screenings, seminars, and panel discussions with artists, curators & collectors in the adjoining rooms.

International Contemporary Art Fair artLA is the best to be found not only to take the excitement of the L.A. art scene but also to locate it in a larger historical background with outstanding programming & study of post World War II art produced there. artLA organization actually welcomes the international art community as it draw together here this fall for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time. This is a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California which tells the story of the origin of the art scene in Los Angeles and how it turn out to be a major new force in the art world.

Now the original Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair is in its 6th year and artLA 2011 is the 49th art fair produced by artLA Director, Stephen Cohen and also the 26th art fair in Los Angeles since 1992. The director said, “With our magnificent location in Downtown L.A., artLA 2011 is poised to deliver an unforgettable experience for galleries and collectors from across the globe.”

He ensured, “The focus of the art world will be on Los Angeles this fall. artLA, with its five years of proven success, along with the twenty year history of photo L.A., confirms L.A.’s role as a major engine driving contemporary art at this time. During this art-filled weekend, Downtown L.A. will be the nexus of this astonishing energy. Our programming and the excellent lineup of participants’ promises to leave an unforgettable impression on everyone involved.”

Museums and large art galleries are treasure houses of historic collections and famous art from many periods in history. Often there is less than a quarter of the collection on display at any time due to space.

In the film, European Vacation, the family exhausts themselves by trying to see every major art piece and famous painting in as many galleries and museums as they can cram in during a two week visit to several cities in Europe.

While their antics were hilarious, cultural overload and tiredness was the result of their futility in trying to see and do it all. This can sometimes be the unfortunate reality of such once-in-a-lifetime visits. Accept that in a limited time it is just not possible to see and do everything. But with a little planning, maximum enjoyment can be gained and over-tiredness avoided.

The best pieces in any collection are usually always on display due to popularity. However, to avoid disappointment, it is wise to check before a visit that a specific work of art is available, as it may be on loan to another museum for a traveling exhibition, or taken away for repair work. Some museums will have free entry at certain times but most will have either a ticket entry or bigger cities will offer museum passes to several.

Use the internet to search for the major cultural attractions for your chosen destination. Museums and galleries are often some of the best marketed and advertised attractions; check local papers, TV, radio and billboards. Tourist centers and libraries will carry leaflets and brochures for all there is to see and do. Hotels and guesthouses will also carry a selection and asking locals can also provide good insider tips on the best value, what is worth the trip and what to avoid.

Gallery Guides and Information Booths

On arriving at the museum or gallery, the first place to stop should be the information booth. They will have floor plans, exhibitions guides, information on when the next guided tour will take place and some even offer highlights tours.

Often there will be audio guide CD players in several languages, available for a small rental fee, which will play information about key pieces in the collection. These can provide good background information about a piece.

However, the most important thing to do is look. Look at the item and try to understand it. Who made it and why? What is it for? Is it confusing or upsetting? Why is the piece in the collection? Is it a good or bad example?

Sometimes it is enough to just walk around and enjoy the beauty of the pieces. Other items can totally baffle and may require further information or provoke further investigation. If a guide is around, ask questions. The guides are often volunteers and will know the collection very well. They enjoy talking about the collection and can often provide insightful information and added depth and understanding.

While a visit to a museum is educational, it should also be enjoyable. It can be fun to guess what an item is before reading the information plaques provided. Often the information center will provide activity packs for children or suggested routes around the collection if time is short.

Remember to take frequent breaks and rest stops. Often there will be restaurants and cafes in the building or eating areas provided if you prefer to bring your own refreshments.

Museum Themes, Interactive Exhibits

Many museums will have a specific theme such as war or industry periods showing farming equipment, aircraft, pioneer museums or science museums. These can be much more interactive, with hands-on activities, videos and lectures. They can often spark new interests or begin a family history search.

Many individuals and teams of specialists have researched, catalogued and preserved the collections. More recently, much effort has gone into presenting the collections using multimedia to enhance the enjoyment, and help visitors see, learn and understand about history, cultures and the world.

Every form of art has its own beauty. While carrying the special beauty, every art requires certain basic fundamental principles to be observed while doing the same. So the art of drawing has also a set of fundamental principles. Along with the growing practice of doing practical training, it would be necessary to know these art fundamentals, too. Here are some of the fundamentals of drawing.

Seeing The Shapes

Basically the visual art is matter of seeing. So an artist has to see very well the object to be drawn or painted. The shapes, yes, the shapes of the objects are of much importance. Once you identify the shape of an object well, you can think about its lining that would recreate the shape on paper or canvas. You can start drawing after getting exact idea of the shapes.

Light Effect

The intensity of light falling on an object indicates the areas of your operation. The light decides where to move your pencil or brush. Lighted area would take the lighter colours and the spaces getting lesser light would be darker. That is called the ‘value’ in the language of art. A good drawing would have the full range of the values, meaning all types of shades should be depicted as per their values.

Control and Consistency

Consistency is the maintaining of a particular style of drawing or painting. If you can do it, your artwork would be like your signature. People would see an artwork and they would recognize it immediately as yours. So to keep working on your own style is crucially important in the world of art. Moreover, if you have good control over the pencil, you can draw precise lining and shading. The structure of the objects drawn and their relative size would render an artwork aesthetically beautiful. At later stage, it would help in exploiting the fullest value of colours and creating rich textures.

No Room for Deviation

This applies to the portrait drawing. When you are working under a commission and are required to draw or paint the portrait of a person, a slight variation would ruin your entire work. A slightly bigger eye or a lip thicker than the original one could displease the person being portrayed. In portrait drawing, there is room for artistic imagination, but you will have to honour the reality, too.

Get Together All the Helps

An artist uses various resources while doing his or her pencil drawing or a painting. You can use your sketchbook or the photographs of the object or the scene to be drawn. Instructions available in and on videos would be a great help for the beginners. Finally, if you can spare regular hours of time, thinking about to attend a painting or drawing course would be a great idea.

It’s not every day that we are honored with our own museum exhibition. Of course, in accepting the invitation, we have also bought some pressure. After all, we want to show only our best work. But there are five of us here–Junior, Pilcher, Mosley, Hairy and me. While I’m the famous one, the others are artistically and emotionally involved and the question arises, “Can we agree on what IS our best work?” These four guys really bear down, spouting something about pressure making diamonds. I see it more as “under stress, they regress.”

If you watch them closely and ask a few questions, you’ll find that each comes to his love for ceramics from a different place. For Hairy it’s the only honest way he knows to make a living. For Mosley it’s an immersion in magic; he loves fire, chemicals and watching clay thrown on a wheel. The fact that he can’t do the latter makes it all the more desirable. Pilcher is a recovering academic who can’t get past his first step. To him, no process or question is too small to track down. Having made his discovery, he is then compelled to talk about it, and at great length. Unfortunately, he has more words than discoveries, so while I’m running the pottery, he’s running his mouth. By the law of averages, he does come up with some great stuff. But even that’s a black hole because, while he’ll tell you all about it, he won’t tell you how he did it.

Junior is the toughest case. He comes to ceramics as if it’s a religion. He is a born-again, fundamentalist, clay-thumping potter. For him, Rascal Ware is a divine calling that guarantees dignity and meaning with every breath, even if every breath is oxygen depleted. He takes that as a sign to embrace reduction firing. Junior seeks nothing less than the Kingdom of Clay, such as it might be, where he and George Ohr will sit at the right hand of whomever. He shouldn’t hold his breath. It’s rumored that Bernard Leach is still in purgatory for condescending to . . . well, pretty much everyone.

For my part, I am the power behind the thrown-that’s not a typo. Nor is it an exaggeration. By the strength of my personality, imagination and wily fingers, I can play these guys like a piccolo – though they would tell you I beat them like a drum. I remind them that some men would pay for that kind of experience.

What we have produced for the Canton Museum of Art is, of course, a collection of everybody’s strength. There are not that many seashells-score one for Georgette! I call it the Rascal Ware Trifecta: “Twos and Fews,” “Pete and Re-Petes”, and “Inspired and Expired.” You can look at these works as pottery that is born of poetry, prose, biography and our collective human condition. All of the pieces are driven by the Rascal Ware Story, the first five chapters of which are on display. You really should read them in order to understand what you see. Some readers will discover truth and beauty. The truth we build with a pitchfork; the beauty is just a skim coat.

Are you bored with your room design and want to brighten it up as soon as possible? If you actually don’t have much time and enough funds for a great renovation you can’t go wrong with a well placed, good wall art. A thoroughly chosen image printed on canvas and well specified size of it can become a really fantastic decoration of your dwelling. There is no doubt that wall art is an increasingly popular way to spice up your home’s decor.

If are an enthusiast of art and fond of a particular current as abstract, classical, impressionism, primitive, modern or others it is enough to choose the image and specify the available option such as size, framing and etc. You also can get any world-famous painting printed on canvas. Canvas printing high technology allows performing exact copies of the chosen painting reflecting even the artist’s technique.

If you long to set your sights to personalized wall art you can even use your own image or your personal photo and you will create a stunning decoration for your house.

Choosing an image for your room you have to look at several factors, including the right colors, the right dimensions, and most especially, an appropriate subject for your room.

Have you ever heard about multi-canvas wall art?
One choice for canvas art can be an enlarged photo of your family. This is a wonderful way to show off your latest family portrait; however it can look much more modern and stunning than a simple canvas print if you decide on printing it on multi-canvas. Thus you can create a truly customized canvas art.

Multi-canvas wall art is a special wall art that can be achieved by a simply picture or a photograph that you print over several canvasses. This tiled effect adds to the image an extraordinary and exceptional look. Unlike a large canvas print, multiple canvasses give you the sense of seeing more than just one image. Usually it consists of three different canvasses arranged in a single row, it is known as the triptych approach.

However, you can use much more than three canvasses and do them vertically or maybe even mix and match different shapes and sizes of canvasses like a puzzle picture. It is up to you to specify how many canvases you want to use, their size, how they are going to be arranged and what look the final product would have. Be creative and you will get a really eye-catching piece of wall art. Please do remember according to factual evidence it is not as simple as it could seem.

If you have one main image and you want to crop it into four, it might seem to you that a grid arrangement can be just the right formation. However, don’t jump to conclusion. If you feel that you would be able to bring more out of the picture using your own arrangement, go ahead!

If you are not sure in your creative abilities buying a ready-made multi-canvas wall art is that what you need. Specialists crop a given image effectively and arrange the canvases in an appropriate way in order to bring forth its natural beauty.

With all the galleries sprouting up along H Street NE, the neighborhood may be on its way to becoming Washington's next big arts district, and another addition this weekend will certainly help the area's credibility. G Fine Art, formerly housed along 14th Street, is taking up residence in the up-and-coming neighborhood.

The gallery celebrates its move to Northeast Washington on Saturday with a new exhibition and an opening reception. The work of A.B. Miner goes on display in "Naked," a show that strips down in more ways than one. In one diptych, Miner pulls back the curtain on his creative process, while a massive 12-panel painting shows a year in the life of a post-surgery expanse of skin from a landscape of stitches to a healed, though scarred, chest. Meanwhile the video piece "Fly 08" -- a riff on Yoko Ono's "Fly" -- features the interaction between an insect and a reclining nude figure.

Being an artist myself, I know how hard it can be to sell your art in the real world that is one reason you might what to try to sell your art online. A few years ago I decided to start selling my art online and I’m glad I did. Now, I’m not getting rich doing this, but I have made more sells online than I ever did in the real world. Plus I don’t have schlep my artwork from place to place.

Lets just take a look at some reasons you should consider selling your art online.

Convenience In the real world you have to sale your art in galleries, art festivals, fairs, libraries or any place that will allow you to place your art and sell it. Now consider you have to pack up your artwork and carry it to these places and in some of cases hung the work yourself. Also consider that the pieces that don’t sale you have to take them down, pack them up and carry them back to your home or studio

However, when you sell your art online you just put up some photos of your artwork on a website with some information on the size, medium and price and depending on where you put it you may be able to keep your artwork there indefinitely. Even if the artwork doesn’t sale on a site where it has to be removed, all you have to remove is a photo and some information. No packing and no carrying bulky paintings back and forth.

You Have Total Control By selling your art online you take over total control of your art career. No more middlemen telling you how much to price your art for and then taking a cut of your money when the art sells. Galleries will take anywhere from a 40 to 50% cut of your art sales. Art Festivals will charge any where from $200 to $500 fees just to be in the festival and demand that you have a certain amount of inventory, which you have to pay for. If you don’t sell anything at the festival you are just out all of that money.

If you sell your art online you can decide when where and how long you have your art up on a website and although there are some sites that may charge you to have your art on them, most of the places are free and the ones that do charge it’s usually a very small amount. Also most places where you can sell your art online will let you set your own price and won’t charge you a commission. So you can keep 100% of your art sells. Also on most places that allow you to put art on their sites, you can put up as many or as little as you want.

A Worldwide Customer Base When selling your art in the real world your art sales are usually limited to the place where your art is at the moment. If you are exhibiting at a gallery your art sales are limited to that gallery and the people that come into that gallery. If your art is being shown at a fair your art sales are limited to the people that see your art at that fair. I think you get the picture. For the must part in the real world your art sales is going to be limited to local or regional sales.

On the Internet you have a worldwide audience to market your art to. Because of selling my art online I now have my artwork in Japan, France, Great Britain, Canada and other places that I would not have been able to reach in the real world. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world you will be able to reach people from different countries. An artist in Italy can sell a piece of art to a buyer Russia or an artist in India can sell a painting to a buyer in the United States. Your online presence is your art gallery to the world.

The annual Phillips County Art Show will be held Thursday, March 25, through Sunday, March 28 at the Holyoke High School Commons, 545 E. Hale Street. The show will feature the work of regional artists of Colorado and Nebraska.

This is the eighth year the art show is being sponsored by the Phillips County Arts Council. Area artists, from beginners to professionals, and students are encouraged to enter their work.

A collection of the work of local artist Jessie Scott will be on display during this year’s art show.

Scott was born in 1912 and lived most of her life on a farm in the Haxtun area. Her interest in art began at an early age and continued into her 90s. She was a prolific painter, sculptor and stained glass artist. She created a series of stained glass windows located in the Haxtun Church of the Brethren, depicting the ministry of Christ beginning with the Nativity and ending with the Ascension.

Her artwork is well known in this area and around the country and is held in many private collections throughout the United States and in England. Scott died earlier this year. A limited number of prints of her work will be available for purchase.

Artists may enter their work on Thursday, March 25, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Accepted media will be acrylic, china painting, creative stitchery, collage, colored pencil, drawings, fibers, hand-thrown ceramics and pottery, jewelry, mixed media, oil, pastels, pen and ink, pencil, photography-traditional, photography-enhanced, scratch art, sculpture, stained glass, tole painting, watercolor, weaving and wood carving.

Judging will take place on Friday morning, March 26, and an oral critique for artists and anyone interested will be offered from 1:30 to 3 p.m. An oral critique for students will also be offered at 1:30 p.m. The show will be open for public viewing on Friday from 3 to 10 p.m., Saturday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Sunday, March 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. Many art pieces are available for purchase and the public is encouraged to visit the show and appreciate the work of area artists.

This year’s entries will be judged by John Cross of Sterling. Cross is assistant professor of fine arts at Northeastern Junior College. He received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and his master’s in fine arts from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Mo. He has taught drawing, painting and design classes at colleges and universities in the St. Louis area. Mr. Cross refers to himself as an image maker.

While primarily a painter, he uses an eclectic range of techniques, media and imagery to create art works that reflect his thoughts on contemporary culture and the power of the individual. His work has been displayed throughout the U.S. and is held in several private and public collections.

Susan Reber of Sterling will judge student entries. She will be offering a student critique on Friday, March 26, at 1:30 p.m. Reber has been painting for 30 years and has taught art in grades K-12, as well as at the college level. She prefers watercolor and paints in both realistic and impressionistic styles. She also works with collegiate sports design and interior design.