Wednesday, April 27, 2016

We honor the power of art to calm our senses, focus our attention, challenge our intellect, and expand our imagination.

 
Keith Haring
 
Botticelli
 
 
Norman Rockwell
 
Art has the ability to create a conversation, make us laugh, or tell a story. The right oil painting can enhance your interior space in subtle ways you might never have imagined."       
 We honor the power of art to calm our senses, focus our attention, challenge our intellect, and expand our imagination.  


Tuesday, April 26, 2016

PaintingsToGo® Fine Art Collection Inspired by The Italian Renaissance

Ginerva de Benci

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

The Lady with an Ermine
 
Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo, (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpiecesMany historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man"
 
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Monday, April 18, 2016

You Deserve The Riches of Fine Art. Johan Zoffany, Neoclassical Painter

 Charles Townley and friends in his library, by Johan Zoffany.
 

Johan Zoffany, Zoffani was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England. His works appear in many prominent British National galleries such as the National Gallery of London,  the Tate Gallery, and in the Royal Collection.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Infuse Your Life With the Inspiration and Beauty of Claude Monet Oil Paintings




 
Water Lilies (Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict Monet’s own flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life.

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Friday, April 8, 2016

Primavera by Sandro Botticelli - Precious Works Of Art We Yearn To Possess.

Primavera (c. 1482)

 Icon of the springtime renewal of the Florentine Renaissance, also at the summer palazzo of Pierfrancesco de' Medici, as a companion piece to the Birth of Venus Left to right: Mercury, the Three Graces,  Venus,  Flora,  Chloris,  Zephyrus
 
The Birth of Venus

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Auguste Renoir French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

The Theater Box, 1874
 
Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881
 
Two Sisters, 1881
 
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings


Monday, April 4, 2016

How To Care For Your Paintings

Vincent Van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet
  • Things to Consider: The best place to hang a painting is on a wall which has a wall stud where you can securely anchor the wall hooks, away from any heat source, in a place of relatively stable and reasonable humidity and not in direct sunlight.
  • Dirt and Heat: Heat dries out the material of the painting, speeding up the process of natural aging.   Also, as hot air rises it carries dirt with it.  Thus, a painting above a heat source will experience far more grime than is normal for the rest of the room. 
  • Water: Moisture will weaken the adhesion of the paint layers and eventually cause paint loss.   The support and ground are the most sensitive components of the painting to water damage.  If damage to the support and ground are pervasive, further damage to the paint and varnish may occur.
  • Humidity: Low or high relative humidity as well as rapid changes in relative humidity are not good for paintings. 
  • Light: Fugitive dyes and colorants used in the paints will eventually discolor under exposure to ultraviolet light.  The fading of pigments and dyes in paintings will affect the color balance of the image.  The intensity and wavelengths of light used in displaying graphic art is generally safe for paintings.