Art allows a culture to communicate its ideas and values to future generations. Tiling, weaving, border decoration, and other such systems allow cultures to survive and propagate themselves. Dictators and autocrats have attempted to control the creation and display of art since the beginning of history.

People are easier to control if their artistic horizons are narrowed to the rulers’ preferences. Art allows people to express meaning through craft, and potentially lets them share nontrivial insights about the world around them.

So is Art Is Not A Luxury? Art is sometimes thought to include only certain groups of people and to exclude others. Art is frequently held to be a plaything of the wealthy because of the time required to pursue artistic endeavors and the cost of obtaining them.

But art allows anyone to experience emotions and thoughts, because it now includes not only the artist’s ideas but those that the viewer brings to the artistic work. It can be used to educate, propagandize, control, and convert people to new ways of thinking. This is effective because art uses our automatic responses to biological stimulation in novel ways.

Art is something that stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. It is also an expression of an idea and it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes. Art is the best way I have of figuring out what the world is trying to show me.

Art is a learning and a teaching process, said Beuys. Its not an elite activity reserved solely for experts ” its a part of everyday life, and its human nature to be creative. the question remains … Art Is Not A Luxury.

Artist holds freedom of expression, and the viewers the liberty of interpretation. Contemporary art longs for the communication between spectators and artists. Artists like Nara and Aya Takano use children as a subject in almost all of their art. While Nara creates scenes of anger or rebellion through children, Takano communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls.

Artists like Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst are considered to be artists by the artworld under Dickies definition, but they are classified under different subsystems of art. Dickies art theory makes it possible the works of two very different artists to exist under the same heading of art, as well as much of what surrounds us in our everyday life.

Therapists, psychotherapists, and clinical psychologists have found that art can help a person deal with situations during therapy sessions. The goal of art therapy is to heal through creativity.

Art is not a luxury but an essential part of life and human experience. Art is a method of representing man’s interpretation of his environment and communicating that interpretation to others. As such, all art has to be intelligible. Art is a vital component of the human experience.  Author: The Art Fanatic

As Vegas’ premier exhibition venue, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art showcases magnificent works of art within a AAA Five Diamond Award resort setting.

Located in the heart of the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas you’ll find the Gallery of Fine Art. Stop by and visit current exhibits to see the artworks that have come from museums as well as private collections.

Here you can expect to view a gallery committed to the presentation of intimate exhibitions of the world’s most compelling artists.

Each year the gallery presents world-class exhibitions of artworks and objects drawn from internationally acclaimed museums and private collections.

Definitely a things to do in Las Vegas for art enthusiasts and those interested in expanding their cultural knowledge.

The Las Vegas Art Museum will receive 50 works from famed Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection from the national gift program “Fifty Works for Fifty States.”

The program, launched by the couple and with National Gallery of Art, titled gives 50 works from the contemporary collection to an institution in each state.

Libby Lumpkin, executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, says the museum received a tentative list of works Thursday. The list includes pieces by such artists as Richard Tuttle and Larry Zox.

“We are very honored to have the confidence of the National Gallery of Art,” Lumpkin says. “I have been an admirer of the Vogels and their collection for many, many years. They are the quintessential example of how you can be a collector without having an enormous amount of money. They got to know the artists and the gallerists. They followed their instincts. And they had great instincts.”

The couple started collecting art in the 1960s. Herb Vogel was a postal clerk. Dorothy Vogel was a librarian. Their collection of 4,000 works includes mostly minimal and conceptual art by such artists as Sol Lewitt, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The National Gallery of Art is working with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on the national gift program.

Lumpkin will attend a celebration for the program in November at the National Gallery of Art. The works are scheduled to arrive in December and the museum will hold an exhibit shortly after.  Article by: Kristen Peterson – Las Vegas Sun

Leonardo Da Vinci, the Renaissance genius, has raised new awareness to his famous “The Last Supper” painting.

An Italian musician thinks there are musical notes encoded in his most popular work of art. Giovanni Maria Pala drew the five lines of a musical staff over the painting and associated the loaves of bread and the hands of Jesus and his Apostles as notes.  He claims the result ”sounds like a requiem.”

Over the years, many people have studied Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting for hidden clues.  Papa in his new book, says he began studying the painting in 2003 out of curiosity.  He feels the musical score is “almost painfully slow but musical.”  Full article

So why are so many art aficionados flocking to the City of Angels? Woody Allen once appropriately joked that L.A.’s greatest cultural advantage was the opportunity to make a right turn at a red light. Well times are changing in Los Angeles. The boom has arrived and artists are now seeing record sales. Full article

A 1931 poster featuring a pair of sleek Italian motorboats, speeding across the water set a record in New York. The work of an unknown artist, saw fierce bidding when a private collector finally payed $20,000, twice the expected price to set the record for a poster of its type. Full article

Van Gogh is believed to have finished the painting, which depicts vast wheat fields swaying in the breeze under a blue sky, weeks before he died in a town near Paris on July 29, 1890. Full article

A painting by Peter Paul Rubens is creating big buzz among art collectors. It’s making a U.S. debut and will auction in London on December 6th. Titled “Two Studies of a Young Man”, it was painted between 1615 and 1617. Full article

Artist Alice Neel, worked in relative obscurity most of her adult life. As a resident of Spanish Harlem, she often painted her friends and neighbors. Originally created in the 1940’s, it recently sold for $445,000 at a Christie’s art auction.

But the record-breaking price for the portrait “Roberta Johnson Roensch” does not change the entire market for her work. Full article