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Searching
for the Art section.
By Pablo Mańé.
The digits of the money that moves around the Art business don't stop increasing.
The quotations of art works are beating records in the auctions sales. The sale of stolen art works is the fourth illegal business after weapons, drugs and sex. Museums are visited by multitudes that get to do long queues so that they con get in some outstanding expositions. Museums are visited by multitudes that get to do long queues so that they can get in some outstanding expositions. It would be reasonable to think that this interest and that volume of money would correspond to make more complete sections of art in the press and TV of the entire world. But no, according to art sections we are going backwards instead.
Not long ago any newspaper or serious magazine had a paragraph or section for Art, which was named "Art & Literature", "Cultural supplement" or "Art & Live". Later on these sections took very ambiguous names such as "Second notebook" (Segundo Caderno) or "Notebook 3" (Caderno 3) (Were in the excellent team of O Povo an Diario do Nordeste both in Fortaleza (CE) Brazil, we have so good friends). |
"Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Van Gogh
gained for 15.000 million pesetas in 1990
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"Les peuplier" by Claude Monet
gained for 7.046 million pesetas.
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Now it looks like we have to look for art in a heterogeneous section, where we can find a cinema, fashion, holidays, curious inventions and even the horoscope, they get the name of "entertainments" or "leisure" or the sum of both.
The reason that these sections disappeared is not dear. Painters try hard but frequently journalists can't include their information's because they don't have any space to arrange them.
The expositions organized by public and private statements are finding a place in the press and TV. They use all their links to get an article at the close up. The finality could be the simple association of the name or the firm or the institution to a determinate cultural action. It's when we attend to the game of shares and interests to obtain the
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It seems ironic but it looks like they are the ones to promote pure art. Stylusart gives attention to some of these expositions because to our judgment they have a truthful significance, but we are also to divulge the work or artists, of all the ages, that do an interesting job with or without the institutional help.
We have received several e-mails thanking us for Stylusart it looks like if they needed it to breath.
This year a well-known painter, who stylusart has done and made known his expositions caused great resonance out of Spain, and that some important politicians went to see them. When he come back he regretted with resignation trying that the press & TV would do echo, because it turned out to be fruitless. The only solution that he had left to publish is photos, was paying out for a section, at the same price as any other advertiser. Leaving apart the artistic issue, an objective fact is that the artist has sold thousands of paintings through his professional career, and that for his clients it would be interesting to find out about his foreign success. |
Miró
Foundation visitors
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"Woman crossing her arms" by Picasso
gained for 10.660 million pesetas.
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It could be possible that I'm talking as a passionate, as I am, of art, but I think it's one of the most sublime values that the human being as reached. If we had to present to a civilization, much more advanced, that comes from another planet the most important things that the humans have done, probably we would be shy to show a satellite or an aeroplane but we would be proud to show some paintings of Rembrandt or Picasso.
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