“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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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 first to produce an editorial in which was summed up the major principles that turned into the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. It included the passionate loathing of ideas from the past, and with that enmity of political and artistic traditions, espoused a love for speed and technology.

The philosophy of Futurism regarded the car, the plane, and the industrial town as legendary of the technological triumph of mankind over nature. With Marinetti at the helm, a couple of artists of the time introduced the tenets of the doctrine to the visual arts, and represented the movement in its’ first phase in 1910. The Russian Futurists were fascinated with dynamism and the restlessness of modern urban life, decide to seeking to provoke controversy and attract attention to their works through insulting reviews of the static art of a past era, and the circle of Russian Futurists were predominantly literary in preference to being overtly artistic.

Cubo-Futurism was a school of Russian Futurism formulated in 1913, and many of the works incorporated Cubism’s usage of angular forms combined with the Futurist predisposition for dynamism. The Futurist painter Kazimir Malevich was the artist to build up the style, but dismissed it for the inception of the artistic style referred to as Suprematism, that focused upon the fundamental geometric shapes as a variety of non-objective art. Suprematism grew around Malevich, with most prominent works being produced between 1915 and 1918, but the movement had halted largely by 1934 in Stalinist Russia.

Though at one point, those Russian poets and artists that considered themselves Futurists had collaborated on works such a Futurist opera, but the Russian movement broke down from persecution for their belief in free thought with the beginning of the Stalinist age. Italian Futurists were strongly related to the early fascists in the hope for modernizing the society and economy in the 1920s through to the 1930s, and Marinetti founded the Futurist Political Party in early 1918, which was later absorbed into Benito Mussolini’s National Fascist Party.

As tensions grew within the various artistic faces that considered themselves Futurists, many Futurists became connected with fascism which later translated into Futurist architecture being born, and interesting instances of this style can be located today although many Futurist architects were at odds in the fascist taste for Roman imperial patterns. Futurism has even influenced a few other 20th century art movements like Dadaism, Surrealism, and Art Deco styles. Futurism as a movement is viewed extinct largely with the death of Marinetti in 1944.

As Futurism gave way to the actual future of things, the ideals of the artistic movement have remained significant in Western culture through the expressions of the commercial cinema and culture, and can even be as an influence in modern Japanese anime and cinema. The Cyberpunk genre of films and books owe much to the Futurist tenets, and the movement has even spawned Neo-Futurism, a style of theatre at utilizes on Futurism’s focuses to make a new form of theatre. Much of Futurism’s inspiration originated from the last movement of Cubism, that involved such famed artists as Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne, and created much of the basis for Futurism through its’ doctrine.

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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 Christian and secular in nature. Some of the earliest examples of Gothic art are sculptures discovered on cathedral and abbey walls, and the first real form of Gothic artwork began as architectural works in point of fact, even becoming the subject matter for numerous stained glass windows at the time.

The type of painting that further defined Gothic art wasn’t produced until nearly fifty years after Gothic architecture and sculptures, and despite the fact that the break between Romanesque artwork and the Gothic styles has remained imprecise at best, the beginnings of Gothic artwork seems to occur in various areas at different but related intervals. The artwork began in England and France around 1200, and in other areas like Germany and Italy between 1220 and 1300. The paintings stayed just as narrative as the architecture on church walls during this period, and has stayed the territory of secular storytelling for a long while afterwards.

Though Gothic art in paintings has had a relatively short time as the medium of choice amongst the artists, there is evidence that the artwork falls into four particular styles of these paintings, and these were the most frequent forms during this moment period. The fresco, the panel painting, the illuminated manuscript, and the artwork done on stained glass are all depictions of Gothic painting. Of these specific types, stained glass artwork had remained a strong reminder of those ages long past, and is still developed by master artisans that learned their trade skills from these dark ages.

Regarding the other three particular sorts of Gothic painting, frescoes continued to be utilized as the pictorial narratives on church walls in southern Europe, and were incorporation of early Christian and Romanesque traditions. In Italy, during the 13th century, the panel painting began and spread throughout Europe. With this proliferation, panel paintings became even more predominant by the 15th century, and becoming even more popular than stained glass right at that moment. Since not all monumental works have survived, illuminated manuscripts are the most complete record of Gothic painting, and supply an extensive account of styles that would otherwise perished.

As the state of the world began to change, so too did the interpretations of the artwork as an indication of these changing times and attitudes, and the movement became called International Gothic by the late 15th century. From there, it had become an art form depicting not just secular stories and allegories, but also resulted in the appearance of more illuminated manuscripts and paintings as increased trade and [the rise of the increase of] urban centers and universities grew. With this proliferation of growth, more people were literate, and lead to better records kept with this occurring. Leading up to most of the well-known medieval artists today.

The International Gothic style of artwork was developed in Burgundy, Bohemia, and northern Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. During this time period in Gothic art, artists traveled widely around polite society at the time making a common aesthetic among the aristocracy of the time, and getting rid of the concepts of contrary artistic styles. The principle influences for this period in artwork were derived from northern France, the Netherlands, and Italy. It was during this time, that aspects of rational uses of perspective and setting became a common feature, and other characteristics included flowing lines and rich coloring.

Regarding Gothic sculpture, it had evolved from the elongated types of the Romanesque style, and became a more naturalistic expression in the early 12th and late 13th centuries. Influences from Greek and Roman statuary were incorporated into drapery, facial gestures, and poses. The sculptor Claus Sluter and the changing tastes for more naturalistic styles became a harbinger for the end of the Gothic period of art, and signaled the beginning of the evolution into Renaissance period at the end of the 15th century.

In a time period where upheaval was the normal occurrence of most of the people then, Gothic art fell into the broad scope of medieval artwork that included such disparate elements and styles as Viking art and Celtic art, but in varying degrees trusted the artistic heritage of the Roman Empire and the early Christian Church. As a matter of fact, much medieval artwork has the history of these elements conjoining and converging into the remarkable artistic legacy we learn about today, and have contributed over the course of time to the results of many other sorts of art from the Renaissance to the present day.

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When speaking on buying paintings of the Expressionist movement, it is always worthwhile to review what elements make Expressionism unique, and to gain an comprehension of a few of the artists representative of this specific artistic movement. The given intention of Expressionist artwork is not reproduce a theme accurately, but to instead portray the inner state of the artist, with an inclination to distort reality for a sentimental effect. The movement is closely related to its’ beginnings in Germany, and has a few unique but overlapping schools of thought within.

The phrase Expressionism was first used to explain the movement in the magazine made in 1911 called “Der Sturm”, and was usually linked to paintings and graphic work that challenged academic traditions at the time. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche later helped to define the area of modern expressionism better by clarifying the movement’s links to ancient art before any more innovative interpretation had, and applied his own unique doctrine to the movement. He has been quoted stating that disordered and ordered elements are present in all works of art, but that the basic traits of Expressionism lay in the mainly disordered aspects.

The Expressionist outlook was usually conveyed through the use of bold colors, distorted forms, and an absence of perspective. By and large, a piece of expressionistic art is one that is expressive of intense emotion, and much of this sort of artwork occurs during times of social upheaval. Though it may be argued that an artist is expressive by nature, and that all artwork is truly expressionist, there are a few who consider the movement particularly communicative of emotion. Later, artists like Kandinsky changed 20th century Expressionist go through the organization of Abstract Expressionism.

The art historian Antonín was elemental in coining the phrase as the opposite to the Impressionist movement as well, and though Expressionism seems well defined as an artistic movement, there have never been a grouping of artists that called themselves Expressionists. The movement was primarily German and Austrian, and most of the various sets of thought were based around Germany at the time. Another artistic movement that heavily influenced Expressionism was Fauvism. This sort of artwork is characterized by primitive, less naturalistic forms, and includes the works of famed painters Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse.

With this influence firmly in place, Expressionism grew into striking compositions that focused on representing emotional reactions through powerful use of color and dynamic approaches with subject matter, and was considered to counter the qualities centered on by the French Impressionism of the time. Where French Impressionism was to look for rendering the visual appearance of objects, Expressionism became an opposing movement seeking to capture emotions and subjective interpretation, and it was not important to reproduce a visually pleasing interpretation of the matter that the painting represented.

Expressionism has crossed over into many differing fields of artistic vision, with sculpture and filmmaking being primary examples today, and have influenced many people throughout the path of its’ existence as a movement in art. These visions have combined over time to create the comprehensive idea of what Expressionism is now, and many individuals have discovered this sort of art very appealing and good-looking. Throughout this century, much Expressionistic artwork has come to be representative of what art can come to be, and many people have been influenced by this very emotional artwork.

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Evoking a taste much in-line with the Romanticist tradition, but utilized mysticism and sensitivity through mythology and dream imagery, preceding the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung. With a powerful philosophical touch, more so than a style of art, and Art Nouveau and Expressionist artists like Edvard Munch. Beginning in France as a reaction to the movements of Naturalism and Realism, which used to capture the particular components of consensual reality, and presented spirituality and imagination reflecting some artists budding involvement in religion and spirituality.

In literature, poet Charles Baudelaire was developing his work and the movement, and especially with such luminaries as Verlaine responsible for the collective effort of the literary movement during the 1860s and through to the 1870s. With the works of Edgar Allen Poe coming to popularity in the 1880s, the Symbolism movement in artwork represented an outgrowth into the darker and more gothic nature of Romanticism, and contrasted with Romanticism’s rebellious and impetuous sides. Symbolist writers wrote in very metaphoric and suggestive manner, to imbue the subjects with a sense of symbolic meaning, and made realistic images into representatives for more esoteric and primordial ideas.

In translating the language of dreams into artwork with symbolic leanings, discovering a visual style that draws upon that philosophical approach that captures a sense of art that has been influential on more than one movement artistically, and has evoked some of the more fantastic imagery to ever cross a canvas. The Symbolist Manifesto was published in 1886, leading to an explanation of the movement that included ideas such as being hostile towards plain and realistic meanings, and to express the ideal in a perceptible form was the sole aim of this art form.

Symbolists that preferred poetic means of conveying their ideas, were better known for their methods of removing technical aspects to achieve an even greater fluidity for their work, and became related with seeking use of symbolic images over raw description to evoke the state of the poet’s soul. Paul Verlaine was influential in an 1884 magazine defining the essence of Symbolism, through many essays on the relevant poets of the day, and came to the conclusion of relating the creations of this movement to the famed philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whose own work delved into art as a means of refuge from the strife of the world.

These similarities, which presented a contemplative and artistic refuge using themes like mortality and otherworldliness, created disparaging arguments between critic and artist alike. Ending in many Symbolist poets of the day to make their own publications and periodicals, and the literary Symbolism then arrived at the country its’ peak in the year 1886, with one particular periodical lasting until 1965. Though the two facets of the movement were different, they would from time-to-time overlap one another, and became a continuation for mystical tendencies in a Romantic tradition, even flirting with the self-consciously dark Decadence movement.

There were several dissimilar sets of painters and visual artists within the Symbolism movement, and the artistic movement was considered to have an even greater impact worldwide than the literary movement, reaching multiple artists and sculptors from such different parts as Russia. Nearly all of the symbols discovered herein are not necessarily universal, but more personally affected with the artist’s obscure and private references, with some dreamlike site influencing later Surrealists. Symbolism has had a powerful link to music for a while, and mostly thanks to the enthusiasm for the work of Richard Wagner, whose own music reflected his influence from the philosopher Schopenhauer.

Symbolism even grew to have a bearing on a few of the literary fiction contributed by Oscar Wilde and Paul Adam, and has a pronounced ring when discussing movements that have literarily and artistically that have crossed over into other inner groupings of artistic work. The waters of Symbolism have even filtered down the centuries into the state of motion pictures today, and early held influence with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, along with Russian actor and director Vsevolov Meyerhold’s technique of acting that influenced early motion pictures.

It is difficult to overlook Symbolism’s influence and repercussions throughout the timeline to the on-going period of the world, as it drifts through many aspects taken with no consideration on a day-to-day basis, and lots of bits of work for numerous artists from writer T. S. Eliot to painter Pablo Picasso and even the state of horror films as well. A decidedly different state of the world now has interpreted and reinterpreted all this throughout these many hundreds of years, and created more and more material reflections of the state of things as they are.

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I have discovered that people buying paintings for relatives normally have a very particular thing in mind when they set out shopping. It is very rewarding to find just the right painting for a space that really needs it. Sometimes color is the only consideration.

Content is in addition very proper to consider. If your purchasing a painting for someone that has very unusual tastes, it is essential to keep that in the first thing you think about. The painting of a rooster can be great for one relative but not for another.

Size constraints need to be taken into account when buying paintings for relatives. If your Aunt Eloise lives in a tiny apartment, purchasing a painting for her that takes up a complete wall is not a great idea. It is worthwhile to take a peek at the place the painting will go before purchasing one.

Color can sometimes be a big aspect in the buying of a painting. If the color clashes with your relative’s décor, they will not be intoxicated about hanging it. If the color is fantastic, it will hang on their wall for a very long time.

Religious themed paintings are hard to buy for friends, but easy to buy for relatives. Likely, you know what religion your relatives abide by and what symbols are most relevant to it. Jewish symbolism is lost on a Christian family and the other way around.

Picking out to purchase paintings for relatives founded on the artist’s previous work is in addition a good method of finding great art. If your relative already has purchased art from an artist that they like and that they hang prominently in their apartment, then it is a safe bet to purchase another piece from the same artist.

Occasionally buying a nice painting for a relative has a point of inspiration, like a holiday. If your mum and dad just visited Paris, a nice painting of Paris may be a great choice. It is good to know what landmarks they enjoyed most and find an artistic representation of it.

I have some relatives that I’ve bought paintings for that were interested in the Middle Ages. I found some very nice reproductions of the job that was popular in that period. Buying reproductions is acceptable if the painting is prohibitive in cost.

There is an aunt that I adore that is invariably buying painting for relatives. Her heart is in the right place, but she has a difficult time picking paintings that are suitable for the recipient. She bought her daughter a lovely painting that was Baroque and completely didn’t fit the sense of her home.

Landscape paintings done in the Romantic style look so nice in my uncle’s home. I bought him a reproduction of a Monet that he hung in his study. I enjoy watching him study that painting.

My little sister has requested that anyone buying her a painting should stay far from Van Gogh. She has equal dislike for Cezanne and Gauguin. I’m unsure why she feels so strongly about Modern and Up-to-date art.

I happen to like cubist paintings by Kandinsky. My hubby bought me a reproduction of a Kandinsky that I keep in my children’s play room. I can look into it and see so many various things. The painting comes to life and I feel so many emotions when I delve into it.

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