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As we muddle through the first half of the year 2009, I have never seen anything like this. Never have I witnessed the fear and panic in investor’s eyes like I have in the past few months. I was thinking of spearheading a new organization–maybe calling it something like the Battered Investors Club or BIA, an acronym for Broke Investors Of America. The stock market has become nothing more than a roulette table, and retirement accounts such as 401K plans have separated the hard worker from half to almost all of the savings they have responsibly set aside for their retirement.

“SoWa” stands for “South of Washington (Street)” – a part of the South End once called “home” by an assortment of large mills and factories producing pianos, canned goods, shoes, and other items. By the 1950s, most of these businesses had moved out and artists moved in, carving studios, living space, and finally shops and galleries out of the mellow brick buildings. Many members from this flourishing arts community exhibit their creations at SoWa, which also features the work of other artisans throughout New England.

If you have plans of getting into this type of business, you really have to spend a practical amount of time going out to people’s homes to evaluate furniture pieces, then taking them back to your shop. This is a perfect industry for a new entrepreneur because you put your items on consignment and bring your furniture on a store for sale under contract. Then, if the items are sold, you as the consignor receive the payment from the consignee or the store.

So what treasures will you find? Look for gorgeous one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry, stylish pocketbooks, lustrous hand-crafted furniture, plus many stunning sets of dishes and other pottery and ceramic pieces. One of my favorites is a local designer of greeting cards who uses a real hand-operated letterpress to print the beautiful designs. Another favorite is a tiny Boston company that silkscreens designs of local graphic artists by hand onto silky cotton t-shirts – I think of them as wearable art.

Your customers will be the same kinds of people who buy at home furnishings outlets and other antiques stores. All you have to do is to draw their attention and sell them the advantages of shopping with you. Routine advertising methods such as radio and newspaper are also ideal to advertise your shop.

However, you can also consider more convenient way by hosting furniture and collectibles shows and provides seminars or workshops on furniture design with local group. You can also share these designs, antiques and collectibles to community centers and colleges. Be inventive in promoting your shops and be effective in increasing your sale

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Slag glass is marbleized opaque glassware made by several companies from about 1870 until the turn of the century. The opaque pressed glass has colored streaks, usually of white and/or cream. The term “slag glass” came from the belief that these colors were achieved by adding slag from iron smelting works to the glass. In the 19th century, slag glass items were called by names such as “Marble glass” or “Brown malachite” or “Brown marble vitro-porcelain.” Slag glass is commonly found in purple, less common in blue and brown and green. It was also made in pink, but the pieces are rare and very expensive.

In the 1880’s and 1890’s a large amount of this kind of glass was made in the North East of England by all the major pressed glass manufacturers. In the USA slag glass was made by Imperial Glass, by Westmoreland Glass, by Akro Agate, and several other companies. It is still popular today, and is made by US glassworks such as Boyd Glass, Summit, and Mosser, who each make a range of slag glass items in a wide range of colors including red and orange.

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Surrealists were a group of painters and artists that drew a large sum of inspiration from the potent impact from dreams. Before hand, prior to this artistic movement was fully embraced, many civilized people questioned the value of these works of art. Though considered some of the more recent ground-breaking artwork yet to date by drawing on the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung, the Surrealist movement has not lost any of its’ prior impact on many a budding artist today, and influence from this art can be found in many of the works produced by the fresh artists of today.

Surrealism started as an outgrowth from another movement in the art world between the foremost and second World Wars. The movement that was later called Dada, and was most common prior to the occurrence of WWI; many works of “anti-art” were produced as a reaction to the developing restrictions of the social world around right at that moment. Where Dada’s artwork was produced to intentionally defy the boundaries of reasonable interpretation, Surrealism expressed a better goal of combining a sense of the truly amazing with a realistic eye, and creating a bold vision that took the idea of the surreal to the next level.

It is when reviewing the more creative and remarkable artists from this time period, that one can come to realize the appeal and effect that the dreamy state of being has had on the art generally, and an individual can come to grasp a more personal aspect to these unique interpretations of a few of the problems that impact us today. Art is constantly being redefined from within, and it is solely upon the artist’s shoulders to weigh out the experience onto a canvas. It has been said that art imitates life and vice versa, but with Surrealism, the tables are certainly turned around when seen for oneself.

Artists and free thinking individuals like; Andre Breton whom wrote the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, to famed artist Pablo Picasso to whom Surrealistic success was achieved during his period of Cubism. Some of those artists who are now renowned as predecessors to the Surrealist movement began as affiliates of the Dadaism that was strongest during 1919 and the early 1920s, and some of those artists even took Surrealism to greater heights than before. Like Marcel Duchamp who took to defying the boundaries in stride with his previous experience in the Dada movement.

Though some pieces can appear happenstance from a distance, the powerful intent of the artist to convey a new meaning through mixing up and recombining various creative influences, and even from time to time making new threads of thought from old ideas or objects is the objective of the artist. To defy the boundary that one has to each own their reality in life, and to put on a new sense of perspective, shaping the remainder of a lifetime to come. A few of the more famed paintings are rare inexpensively, but buying prints may be the simplest solution to that problem.

There is still a large amount of work created today that draws heavily from the impact that Surrealist thought has made on art in general, and especially on how art may be defined on a genuinely individual front. The most world-renowned artists have already transferred, but their examples stand as firm points from which to gain an comprehension of what Surrealism is, whether defined through a critical mind or as a sampling of how broad the area of art may be. Surrealism is an artistic expression of that state of mind that lies unexplained at the gateway of the subconscious.

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Also known as Cubist Realism, and associated with the Art Deco movement, Precisionism was created in the United States after World War I. The expression for this movement was coined in the 1920s, and influenced by the Cubist and Futurist movements; the main themes for these paintings were mainly regarding industrialization and modernization of the American landscape. These elements were depicted with the use of precise and sharply defined geometrical shapes, a reverence for the industrial age, but with social commentary not a directly fundamental part.

The degrees of abstraction ran the spectrum as some works had photo realistic qualities, and though the movement had no presence outside the United States, the artists that manufactured this specific grouping were a closely knit collective remaining active through to the 1930s. Georgia O’Keefe remained as one or more of the leading advocates of this style, and stayed so for numerous years afterwards until the 1960s, her hubby was an extremely regarded mentor for the group. In a post post-Expressionist phase of life in the art world, Precisionism has affected and influenced the movements of magic realism which utilizes aspects like juxtaposing of forward movement with a sense of distance, and pop art in which themes from mass culture were used to define art much there forward.

Immediately after the 1950s began, the movement of pop art was clear in places such as Britain and the United States, and employed elements of advertising and comic books to build a foundation that might have been viewed as a reaction to the then popular movement of abstract expressionism. Though the expression wasn’t coined until 1958, it was later linked with Dadaism right from the start of the century, and at one point was called Neo-Dada as a consequence of the strong influence from artist Marcel Duchamp. Later affecting artists like Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, bringing the meaning to come to mean one of low-cost mass-produced and gimmicky artwork, and stressing everyday values with common sources like product packaging and famous person photographs.

By exploring that fraction of everyday imagery, the artists discovered themselves using up-to-date consumer culture, and this became apparent in parts of Britain, Spain, and Japan around the same point in time. In Britain particularly, where pop art seemed to stem from at that point in 1947, and lots of works began blurring the boundaries between art and advertising. Whereas in Spain, the movement became interrelated with the “new figurative”, the job arose from the roots of informalism which began to be an essential aspect in this part of the world.

In Japan, pop art has been seen and utilized throughout much of the country’s native artwork through such means as Anime and the “superflat” styles of art, and turned into the means through which the artists could further critique their own culture through a more satirical lens. When choosing a stimulating piece by these artists, perhaps it is a more invigorating exercise to locate some of those other artists to whom these later artists owe much of their inspiration towards their own work, and Precisionism is just as proper a place to start for you as any place else in the artistic spectrum.

Today, Precisionism can be observed as fundamental influence in commercial and popular art, but cannot be too overlooked as being one of a few different movements to affect our present day stance on art’s utility and procedures. With the postmodern present coming to light, perhaps we shall once more be drawn back to the past that we’ve come to take with no consideration too often, and reveal a new age to define a new century of experience.

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Pennsbury Pottery was established in the 1950s in Morrisville, Pennsyvania by Henry Below. The Pottery produced dinnerware and novelty items, much of it in the Pennsylvania “Dutch” motifs. Most items were glazed in a brown-toned background, which made the hand-painted art stand out. The clay used came from Tennessee and Georgia, and was mixed with flint and other ingredients. Glazes were fritted, body sheen and soft. At first the Pottery produced sculptured birds, but soon dinnerware and decorative pieces were added to the production.

Pennsbury is perhaps best known for its commemorative work. They made ashtrays for Electrolux; dishes for railroads; plates for fraternal organizations and mugs and plates for nearby Washington Crossing State Park. The Christmas plate was made only in 1970, just before they closed. An eagle pitcher was presented to President Eisenhower. The rarest of all the pieces produced is a single plate made for presentation to Walt Disney when he attended the opening of the Walt Disney School in nearby Tullytown. Scenic plates were made for the last steam engine run on the Reading Railroad which have the engine pictured on them. Only 3,500 were made and given to passengers as part of the fee. The rooster was popularly used in design. There was Delft blue toleware and what is called Pennsylvania blue dowry ware. Wares were made for U.S. Steel, one of the Pottery’s first industrial accounts, which picture the first iron barge on the Delaware.

In the spring of 1971, the Pennsbury Pottery in Morrisville, PA closed its doors. The contents remaining were sold at public auction. Shortly thereafter, a fire destroyed the pottery, all its machinery and molds.

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