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Collector's Glossary
- Fine Art
- Apart from the connotation of quality
and beauty, this refers to works that are originally conceived
and made by the artist's hand. This excludes imitations,
copies and manufactured art and commercial art (illustrations,
cartoons, design, etc.) and the studio arts and crafts(pottery,
weaving, furnishings, fashion, etc.). Associated with High
and Major visual arts: painting and drawing, sculpture,
architecture. Purists lump printmaking, photography, video,
etc. in the subcategory, "Minor Arts."
Fineness- Refers to high standards of finish or
craftsmanship.
Contemporary (Art)- The current art
movements: what is being taught in art schools and what museums
display in contemporary
exhibitions today.
Also loosely referred to as 20th Century or Modern Art. Experimental,
new, tends to be provocative and/or shocking at times (when
you walk into an exhibit and people are saying,"Oh, oh!",
it's probably contemporary). Also means coincidence, as in
"Cave drawing was the Contemporary Art of the Stone Age."
Western Art - The art of Western
Civilization (as opposed to Asian or non-Western), past and
present, going back to cave
drawings
in southern Europe. Also "Western Art" the genre
(special subject): Legends of the Old West.
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Painting
- Colored pigment on a flat surface.
Sculpture - Three-dimensional art.
Drawing - Line on (usually) paper.
Fine Prints - Painstakingly handmade in multiple (editions)
using a press: woodcuts and relief prints, etchings and engravings,
lithographs from the stone, silkscreens and stencil prints.
Monoprints - One-of-a-kind prints from an unworked printing
surface that cannot be re-inked. Painterly way to print.
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Mixed Media
- Three or more materials used to make
a work (pastel + ink + acrylic + sand, etc.). Not an art movement
although some artists
seem to think so.
Commercial Prints - Reproductions, usually by photomechanical
means: offset (4-color) lithography, digital, giclee (ghee-clay),
including transfers to canvas. This is the Land of Limited
Editions.
Gallery System- Career path of the successful artist:
Art School training and Master's Exhibition, small or alternative
galleries, building collector base and attracting museum
attention, larger galleries in major cities, big museum shows
and important collections. You get famous and then you die.
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