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What is style in art? Individual – what distinguishes a person’s art from someone else’s. May apply to the medium or combination of media used, the means of application of media to the substrate, the nature of the substrate/s, the method of construction (sculpture, installations), innovative use of materials, subject matter, image composition, influences. Collective […]
Difficult always to identify what makes an artist successful. For these purposes I would define successful to be either financial and/or reputationally well-known with the additional consideration of well-known in the art/collectors’ world or by the wider public. Perception is that in art (much as in music) one route to success is to be ‘discovered’ […]
Modern artists influenced (inspired?) by political events: Art has historically been a source of expression, highlighting social iniquities, challenging politics, being outspoken about the world (Hogarth’s ‘An election entertainment’ 1755), . However, there has always been a large body of ‘gentle’ art, art simply for beauty, admiration or commissioned art for personal vanity (Constable, Rembrandt, […]