Art Batis [digital art & design - traditional art]
FINE ART
New York couple Dorothy and Herbert Vogel – a librarian and a postal worker, respectively – scrimped and saved to buy small works by emerging Minimalists in the 1960s and 1970s, paying just a few hundred dollars for each. Over the next 40 years, they amassed a collection of 2,400 pieces worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They subsequently donated their collection to the National Gallery of Art, which offers free admission to the public.
In Portugal there are some similar stories of people who started by buying pieces of art directly from the artist, sometimes spending symbolic values and later revealing themselves to be valuable works of many thousands of euros.
It always depends on what kind of investor you are. An art lover or a dealer with prospects for the future.
The Machine
Oil on canvas painting.
70 cm x 50 cm
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The Noise
Oil on canvas painting.
80 cm x 100 cm
This work has as its theme the essence of life in the depths of the oceans and the obscurity of the human mind, revealing the determination to make beauty subsist over the aberration of recklessness and death in an almost symmetrical harmony.
The woman symbolizes the evolution of creation to support the fight against the adversities that the future projects in the human mind.
Physically, it is a work whose beauty is deformed over the daydreams of the light that reflects it. In low light indoors, shadows consume the screen reading, while intense daylight softens and intensifies the more vigorous and vivid tones.. like day and night, like death and life.
Price:
undetermined
Lovers
Acrylic on canvas painting.
50 cm x 70 cm
In the 19th century, lesbians were only accepted if they hid their sexual orientation and were presumed to be merely friends with their partners. For example, the term "Boston marriage" was used to describe a committed relationship between two unmarried women who were usually financially independent and often shared a house; these relationships were presumed to be asexual, and hence the women were respected as "spinsters" by their communities.Notable women in Boston marriages included Sarah Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, as well as Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith.
in Wikipedia
Dom Sebastião, o regresso
Oil on canvas painting.
35 cm x 35 cm
Fantasy about the return of D. sebastião from the battle of Alcácer Quibir in August 1578. The Portuguese suffered a heavy defeat that culminated in the death of many warriors and presumably the death of King D. Sebastião. With no evidence of his death, much was expected of his arrival after a possible closure, but he never returned. This fact caused Portugal to lose its independence with the accession of Philip II of Spain to the throne...
The duck represents vanity, presumption, idiocy and the spirit of the King. The shield represents the weight of the nation and the strange figure of the snail in the desert is nothing more than a metaphor for uncertainty. The severed head appears as a burden of acceptance by the Portuguese people and the eagerness for the return of El Rei. All the rest are marks of battle.
