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Friday, July 27, 2012

Tales Behind Picture Frames

In the field of arts, perhaps the most wonderful and the most celebrated is the invention of the camera. Photography is simply defined as the process by which images are captured by an image-forming device through the use of especially-designed sensing medium. Digital, disposable, instant, field cameras are the types of cameras but their purpose is similar to each other, that is, to capture images and record events for future generations to see and to last a lifetime.


The power that still images have over us is astonishingly undeniable. Images of personalities, sceneries and even abstract art pieces have the ability to influence our opinions, principles, perspectives in life, judgment and even long-held cultural and family values.


We view photographs as touchstones to connect and reconnect families and remind us of people dear to us. How wonderful it is to see the first generation of your clan and see who looks like whom.

How funny it is to see how your grandfather used to look like with hair on his head and your grandmother used to be so young and slim. How heart-warming to see a departed loved-ones framed picture on the corner vanity table, you terribly miss. Thus, our photographs live on, longer than our existence in this world to remind the future generation of their genetics, pride, legacy and sometimes shame.

These also serve as our remembrance of specific events such as birthdays, graduations, travels and even ordinary daily activities. Most mothers have a compilation of pictures of their babies milestones, from the first nail clipping to the first step ever made. Looking at old baby pictures definitely brings us back to the period where when the picture was exactly taken such that it bring so much laughter as stories are, again, narrated and recreated.

Indeed, memories fade but photographs do not. Photographs have so much to tell long after we are gone.

Pictures advertise tourism. It is uncommon not to see pictures of dignitaries who stayed in whose hotels, dined in whose restaurants and among others. Their portraits are often seen hanging on hotel lobbies walls, strategically located for everyone to see. Picture frames of the city or countrys top tourist destinations are also featured either on the lobby walls or corner coffee tables.


Photos record historical personalities and historical events for writers and historians to write about. Book pages become more exciting for readers because of the colorful pictures.


Pictures can play a lot of role for people from different fields and sectors in the society. They can come as concrete and abstract in form. No matter what the pictures may look like, it is taken for some reasons. These reasons can bring a lot of benefit to the owner of the picture. There are a lot of ways where pictures can play a very important part in our life.


These are just few of the importance that pictures can have in our lives. Taking the best shots for events, persons and things are important for the family, in travelling, commercializing a business, delivering news and issues in the society and for great artists.


Indeed, photographs have so many stories to tell, long after our memories fail us. If you want the story-telling to continue, a Poster frame will do the talking for you. If you want the future generations to be reminded of their cultural heritage and ancestral history, a Picture frame will do the work.





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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

What Is Behind Anthropomorphic Art?

This artist is able to paint pictures such as a pug, seemingly taking the part of a person accompanied with a coat, tie and high collar. It is clear to those painting connoisseurs that this is anthropomorphic art. This artist has no difficulty restoring old paintings those that are normally found in old European homes and private clubs.

As an artistic move he then replaces the original piece with a face of an animal. Starting out as what many call an art restorer, this Belgian artist would say his works were aristochiens and aristocrats. The good thing about his work is that he knows how to capture the image of an animal pretending to be some dignified Englishmen really well.

Due to the overflowing talent this person has he can make additions to an original piece and no one will even know the different. They look uncannily like real ancestral portraits, but then again, so many people's ancestors do look like dogs. For the president of the American Society this kind of art work would not be something he would want up his wall.

As a fundraising event, the animal society held an auctions where one of the pieces of this artist was auctioned off. The art and home decoration gallery where this artist debut his collection had club chairs, tartan couches leather bound books and Sloan ranger's bibelots as the public visited his collection. The gallery provides an unusually apt setting for his oeuvre.

For the artist, he likes his work to be unique yet appealing to the people. The work that he makes is not out there or in your face but one that expresses his emotions. Distinguished individuals and those with a big sense of humor and fun like to buy his work, the artist noted.

More so, it was also observed that the people most willing to acquire the work of this artist are those royalty and aristocrats. Not only ordinary people purchase his work but a large number of them are royals who appreciate a good laugh and of course ancestral portraits. In a certain way these portraits can really be unique.

It is not new for this artist to go around many flea markets, antique shops and private homes to acquire pieces that he can work with. This German pointer looks closely like a French officer at the battle of Alma in a blue dress uniform with gold epaulettes, sword and an array of medals. Attached to a handful of the portraits he has acquired are family symbols. What he will do is to slowly conceal it and add on things like dog bones.

In addition this he even commemorated the death of his dog by painting in on one of his 19th century portraits. Some people find his work blasphemous hence hate how he does is work. However, he thinks that dogs deserve to put us in our place and have earned this. Dogs are known to be loyal and behaved creatures. There are also many more surprises that a dog will bring to someone.

It will cost one ,000 to ,000 to acquire such paintings. Notably a professor of art history at the local university said that this way of art is not new to people. Apparently two famous painters as 18th and 19th century graphic artists and satirists have already works similar to this.