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To Becoming Succsesful Contemporary Art Collector

TO BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL

CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTOR

1. Understand that" a good investment" in contemporary art requires love for art, passion and vision

2. Buy nothing in a first year.

3. see as many works of art as you can in museum and exhibition

4. read books and meet with art dealers, gallery owners, curators, collectors, art adviser, and others.

5. Look at as much art as possible at museums and exhibition to get a "new perspective".

do this continuously until you discover the framework of contemporary art.

Do not buy anything before you have that understanding.

6. Decides which works by which artists you want to buy, than rethink your selections one more time.

Never build a collection on the basis of a list someone else has made for you.

7. buy art in the primary market. In other to accomplish this, find a gallery you can trust,

someone withgood eyes an good artist, who is sincerely concerned about what happens to the

artist and artworks in the future

8. select and artist who is fully committed to art, and capable of creating an individual aesthetic

besides creating high quality works of art

9. Select artwork that clearly shows the high level of skill of the artist and which reflects the

depth of thinking and views of the artist.

10. Set limits in terms of price and type of collection.

C ART 2008

Balinese Traditional Painting

Balinese traditional painting are have something deferent with another traditional paintings in Indonesia, likes Cirebon, Irian or sumatran. The most of Balinese traditional painting based on stories from Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata as well as Balinese and Javanese folklore. one of the Bali traditional painting is Kamasan style, these early paintings, packed with amazing two dimensional, stylised characters, were often use to decorate shrines and pavilions during religious ceremonies. The bodies are mostly shown in full-frontal position while the faces are in three-quarter profile. In early times Balinese artists are work with traditional colour pigments, a colour pigments come from nature. The predominant colours are yellow (from ochre), red (from Chinese cinabar), Brown (red oxide clay mixed with soot) and blue (indigo leaves). Black is made from charcoal or soot, white comes from the shes of burnt deer antlers or animal bones. this style of painting is still practised today at the villige of Kamasan, Klungkung. Until arrival in Bali in the late 1920s of artists of Walter Spies (1895-1942) and Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978),Balinese painting had been locked into rigidly stylised, traditional subject matter that had remained virtually unchanged for centuries. But with the stimulation created by their arrival, a new school of painting emerged, called Ubud style. While the European artists did not formally teachthe Balinese painters, they encouraged them to paint a broaders themes,scenes from everyday life, and through their influence new materials came into use, no longer were the works produced exclusively for religious or ceremonial purposes. During this period, the Balinese painters started to take note of geometric perspective , anatomy,and light and shadow. Although the subject matter and style had changed, the fresh, innovative paintings by artists such as Nyoman lesug, Dewa Putu Bedil and Anak Aguang Gede Sobrat still showed their unique Balinese exuberance. During this times the artists in the nearby Batuan continued working in a more classical style, largely unaffected by outside change. Many of the sombre and mysterious works by Ida Bagus Togog and Ida Bagus Wija take their inspiration from ancient fables and legends, often with a supernatural overtones. Everyday life is also recurrent subject. An amusing painting by Wayan Bendi features a liberal sprinkling of camera-toting tourists eagerly pointing their lenses at stunned water buffaloes and patient, graceful Balinese trying to go about their daily work. Balinese paintings are unique style..........

A Modern Artist

Most Modern artists paint a dozen or two dozen canvases a year, some good, some mediocre. But rarely a does a painter concentrate all his powers upon a single important work, which, if we turns out well, maybe called a masterpiece. Such a picture takes a courage, for it often consumes as a great deal of time and hard work with a little assurance of any return, unless the painting has been commissioned beforehand.

99 is Feng sui number

99 Acrylic on Canvas 185cm x 85cm 2008

Art is........

Freedom of expression, freedom from want and censorship and fear, these are desirable for the artist.

Starry Night

Van Gogh Starry Night was painted at a criticAL moment. for years his art had been a batlle ground between fact and feeling,between the outer world of senses, which the impressionist painted,and the inner world of emotion, which lies behind much expressionist painting. In the Starry Night expressionist won. The having lines of hills, the flaming cypres trees, the milky way turn to comets, the exploding stars, all are swept in to one grand, swirling, universal rhythm. Of course van Gogh did not see these things this way but he painted them this way, impelled by the overhelming emotion of a man whois ecstasically aware of cosmic or devine forces. In a letter to his brother, after writing of his interest in a realistic street scene, he confessed: "that does not prevent me having a terible need of-shall I say the word- relligion. Then I go out to paint the stars............"

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