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Market Investing During A Recession – Investing During A Recession

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 [...]

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Buying Paintings: Surrealism

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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 [...]

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Buying Paintings: Precisionism

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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 [...]

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Buying Paintings: Gothic Art

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Some of the most valuable early artwork derives from a time prior to the Renaissance had begun, and going on through the early Middle Ages, said as the period of Gothic art. During this particular time in history, the artwork took on telling narrative stories through pictures, and much of these pieces were [...]

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Buying Paintings: Futurism

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A 20th century art movement with its’ roots in Italian and Russian beginnings, Futurism is said to have largely began with the writing of a 1907 essay on music by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, and explored every medium of art to convey its’ meanings. The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the [...]

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