Posts Tagged ‘arts’

Redefine the world of Antiques and Collectibles

If yRedefine the world of <b>Antiques and Collectibles</b>\ou have a liking for quotes on arts, antiques, and collectibles and looking for inspiring quotations to say the least, this blog will help you in more than just a way.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.  – Robert Fulghum

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.  A happiness weapon.  A beauty bomb.  And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.  It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.  Floating down to earth – boxes of Crayolas.  And we wouldn’t go cheap, either – not little boxes of eight.  Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.  With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.  And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.  – Robert Fulghum

Life is like a box of crayons.  Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back.  I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing.  It’s okay though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal.  I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes.  Does anyone else have that problem?  I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who’s an eight-color type I’m like, “hey girl, magenta!” and she’s like, “oh, you mean purple!” and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, “no – I want magenta!”  – John Mayer

Is Art there for Real or all hype

Is Art there for Real or all hypeIn this competitive and web-dominated world of today, every participative segment is enjoying success and popularity like never before and arts is no exception, thanks to introduction of the Internet. In this blog, we would be reading about the factors stimulating the world of arts and benefiting the artistic society. We would also be evaluating if arts is there for a reason or just a thing surrounded by hype.

During the last few years, art and artists have started gaining recognition that was long overdue to them. With felicitations and encouragement now easier than ever for the admirers of art along with regulatory measures getting introduced and implemented by the government and art-promotion bodies, the life of an artist is better than ever and this can be easily evident from the fact that expression of art has seen a surge, which was somewhat missing in the early 1900s.

One of the greatest contributors in the promotion of art segments has been the Internet. Since it is easy to promote art over the Web, more and more artists are now exploring their real potential after being neglected for a while.

The success and popularity of performing arts has also been positively stimulated by elementary and arts schools, which are more than ready now than ever before to encourage people keen to take art as a subject, hobby, or profession. The growing resilience of artistic communities and encouragement received from the masses has also been significant contributors to the growth and development of artistic plans and activities.

Despite all these positives, one can easily make out that the art of today is not better or the same than what it was a few decades ago. With commercialization coming into the picture, art and artists are suffering great setbacks and the only reason why this has not been highlighted is because pointing fingers can lead to loss of careers and monetary opportunities. Originality does not find any place now and success is copied every now and then. Whatever may be the reason of this debacle, the world of arts is not the same as it was before and immediate steps are required to reform the world of arts. The hype surrounding art is getting too much for the artists to handle and the results are evident from a somewhat blur image of art over the globe with money proving superior to skill being the real culprit.

In short, one can say that art and artists must be left alone to make a good living but not at the cost of originality and ideologies.