Artibus 027

Diego Rivera from the cycle: Political Vision of the MexicanPeople (Court of Fiestas):Insurrection 1928

I don't think artists can avoid being political. Artists are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine. When we stop singing, it's a sure sign of repressive times ahead. - Theresa Bayer

PBS Feature on Ġmiel il-Ħrafa

This clip about the exhibition (and related activities) titled Ġmiel il-Ħrafa, was featured on PBS evening news on the 30th of May 201. It was also featured on SBS News Australia on 5th June 2011

Gattidarte

Something for those who love art and acts



Its from Atelier Gluck Arte,

Jeni Caruana @ Heritage Malta

An exhibition of paintings by Jeni Caruana entitled “Treescapes……..Lifescapes” will be open to the public from Monday 21^st April until Friday 16^th May at the Heritage Malta Head Office, Merchants Street Valletta. The collection includes ink studies, watercolours and acrylics, ranging from the purely anecdotal to semi-abstract, expressing the artists’ emotional reaction to and feelings about recent events in her life, using trees as her motif. The venue is open weekdays from 9am to 4pm.

more info at www.jenicaruana.com

How much?!?!

How to price a painting? That's the million dollar question! Pricing has always been a nightmare. What's the right price? How the hell would I know. But lets not get too depressed. Apparently, it has been scientifically proven that we like expensive things more.

In an experiment conducted by Antonio Rangel at the California Institute of Technology, the brains of 20 volunteers were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they tasted five different wines costing $5 to $90 a bottle. But Rangel fibbed, telling them that the cheap wine was the most expensive, or giving the same price to two different wines. The scanner showed consistently that the flow of blood to the part of the brain that registers pleasure, the medial orbitofrontal cortex, increased when the price was declared to be high, not according to the quality of the wine. In case this got attributed simply to the ignorant palates of the volunteers, Rangel repeated the experiment with members of the Stanford University wine club and got widely similar results.

I have similar experiences when it comes to the female members of my family (especially my sister and to a lesser degree my wife) but unfortunately not my clients. So, next time i will try to price something i will keep this in mind. The more expensive it is, the more it will be liked and appreciated.