A few days ago I posted about my experience at an art gallery, here. In that post I tried to show you the abstract artworks and left the rest to my next post as I did not want to mix the two. So today I'd like to show you some landscapes, still life paintings (wanted to use the plural of still life, which would be still lifes, but spell check says it's not correct and I say still lives is not correct, so who's right in this case?) etc.
Let's begin with some snowy landscapes, that seemed nice from far, but stepping closer to them, the charm evaporated fast. I'm not saying these were not nice, on the contrary, but were not something I would choose from the collection.
This scene reminded me of a painting I saw not long ago, although obviously the two had no connection whatsoever. These paintings had no title, each had an inventory number, to be able to identify it on the price list, so no way of knowing what the artist meant to capture on canvas.
This kind of color combination always catches my eye from far, but the colors alone are not enough.
Most likely the artist liked these colors too as there were quite a few paintings where she has used these colors together.
While looking around the exhibited artworks, I already saw some similarities, but now putting the two paintings next to each other is even more obvious.
Having the artworks you see available for sale changes how you look at them in my opinion. Having 50 paintings from the same artist in front of you gives you an idea about the artist's style and orientation. Is it a good thing to see so many artworks from the same artist in the same time? Maybe, maybe not, but in my case it wasn't the best idea.
I have several paintings but I've only bought one. The rest were gifts from artists, friends and family members. This means picking a painting is still new to me and after this experience, I can see myself as fussy 😂, which is not necessarily a bad thing. There's nothing worse than buying something (expensive), then regretting later. Obviously you can give it away as a gift, but that's just damage control as you won't get your money back and will definitely not choosing a gift for the person, just getting rid of what you don't like.
This is the last artwork and now that you've seen them all, what do you think? Would you appreciate them more is the similar ones would be removed and you would not see those? Actually you would not know similar paintings exist from the same artist. Would that change how you feel about the artworks? This is the question I have been asking myself.
Even though I went to this exhibition without the intention to buy anything, you never know. Came home empty handed and with no regrets, but with a good lesson. I realized exhibitions combined with sale are totally different from visiting a museum.
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