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Online exhibition and sale of original contemporary paintings
Bordeaux-France
Opinions about painting and art
the defense of the "love at first sight" purchase
For me, a painting is essentially an emotional and cultural heritage.
I am not a platonic lover, just looking at a painting I love is not enough, I need to own it because it is in living everyday with a work that I draw from it its potential; a painting that makes me happy is a painting that speaks to me, that takes me on a journey, delights me ...
To buy this unique piece I need a blow to my heart; I don’t buy a painting by thinking about it for too long.
On the other hand, I don’t buy for speculation even though I know that, over time, other that just fun, art at least retains its value.
I am not a platonic lover, just looking at a painting I love is not enough, I need to own it because it is in living everyday with a work that I draw from it its potential; a painting that makes me happy is a painting that speaks to me, that takes me on a journey, delights me ...
To buy this unique piece I need a blow to my heart; I don’t buy a painting by thinking about it for too long.
On the other hand, I don’t buy for speculation even though I know that, over time, other that just fun, art at least retains its value.
And
when I think of the heritage that I will pass on to my descendants, I
think that my paintings will be essentially an emotional and cultural
heritage through which they will know my tastes and find, perhaps, my
emotions. If the paintings increase in value, so much the better for
them!. But above all, passing on my paintings will mean I was not the
only one to love them, well beyond time and fashion.
Let me give you some advice: let yourself go! Aren’t there already enough things you have to do that lack poetry, love and joy?
André DE BLANZAC, collector
Let me give you some advice: let yourself go! Aren’t there already enough things you have to do that lack poetry, love and joy?
André DE BLANZAC, collector
What good is buying a work of art?
But
what about today? Where is the mark of our awareness of ourselves, of
our ability to exceed the immanence of our humanity? Art, back then so
present, seems to have disappeared from our daily lives. It is limited
to museums, public exhibitions, FRAC, and so on. Should it be a public
service, with a few elites, the only guarantor of what distinguishes us
from animals? If so, isn’t it a sign that our humanity is in jeopardy?
What is the level of intelligence and humanity of our society if art is no longer a part of our lives? We live in a time when art is so afraid that it becomes an act of a "sterilized penning"?Although the former director of the PICASSO museum in Paris, Jean CLAIR lamented: "If the museum wins, it's in the way the desert spreads, where life ebbs. To those who love the land of paintings, there remains only the fenced in museums, as if, to those who love nature there remained only nature reserves, to cultivate nostalgia for what is no longer. " Thus, it is essential that art regains its vitality, both in its creation and in its reception.
It is essential (not "important" but "essential") to measure the superiority of the "usefulness" of a painting to a couch and use it without fear and without complex, as they should be used. It is important to reconnect with our sensitivity, our "irrationality" and give value to what elevates us; essential for the pleasure provided by art returns to our daily lives.
Let’s authorize ourselves, therefore, to open the windows of this aesthetic transcendence that makes us human and do honor the words of Marcel Duchamp: "I believe that art is the only form of activity in which a man as such manifests as a genuine individual. By that alone, he can go beyond the phase of animal, because art is an outlet to regions where neither time nor space dominates.”
Elise LASSALLE, Historian of art
What is the level of intelligence and humanity of our society if art is no longer a part of our lives? We live in a time when art is so afraid that it becomes an act of a "sterilized penning"?Although the former director of the PICASSO museum in Paris, Jean CLAIR lamented: "If the museum wins, it's in the way the desert spreads, where life ebbs. To those who love the land of paintings, there remains only the fenced in museums, as if, to those who love nature there remained only nature reserves, to cultivate nostalgia for what is no longer. " Thus, it is essential that art regains its vitality, both in its creation and in its reception.
It is essential (not "important" but "essential") to measure the superiority of the "usefulness" of a painting to a couch and use it without fear and without complex, as they should be used. It is important to reconnect with our sensitivity, our "irrationality" and give value to what elevates us; essential for the pleasure provided by art returns to our daily lives.
Let’s authorize ourselves, therefore, to open the windows of this aesthetic transcendence that makes us human and do honor the words of Marcel Duchamp: "I believe that art is the only form of activity in which a man as such manifests as a genuine individual. By that alone, he can go beyond the phase of animal, because art is an outlet to regions where neither time nor space dominates.”
Elise LASSALLE, Historian of art
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Many artists and philosophers have insisted on the fact that art is useless, it has no useful reason for existing. It’s true, a painting in itself has no practical use in the same way that we do not need love and fresh water to survive, we do not need art. That is why people, though amatures, refuse to buy a work of art. Art is not useful, it is considered trivial, unlike another object of the same price, a couch for example. It is true that a sofa is useful and we can’t sit on a painting!
But if art is not vital, can we live without it? If art is trivial, why has it endured since the emergence of human beings?
Philosophically, art aims to create a positive aesthetic appreciation, to please or to touch by just its shape, its appearance. It makes man radically differnt from animals. Art belongs to the "almost nothing” that makes us different from chimpanzees, with whom we share 99% of our genetic material. It is an expression of our desire for transcendence, our longing for the absolute and ultimately, our humanity. In his aesthetic, HEGEL said: "The beauty in art is higher than the beauty in nature [since] it identifies the false and deceptive forms of this imperfect world and unearths the truth contained in outward appearances in order to create a higher reality created by the mind itself." In the field of common experience, art is the spiritual surfacing in the translation of reality into meta sensitivity, revealing a truth behind appearances and showing our passions, introducing a distance into our lives, a retreat from ourselves and the world around us. Art is the hallmark of self-consciousness, and has a cathartic function "not utilitarian" because it is spiritual.
Thus, the impracticality of art seems to be a prerequisite for its spiritual value which is the requirement of our humanity. "Art useful? Yes. Why? Because it is art." BAUDELAIRE said, considering that the man is not a being like others, he has needs that exceed the useful and necessary.