Last week I participated in a webinar and as we pared down to our focus groups, one of the questions was do you buy art and why? My reason ended up being a story - so here it is.
When I was first married, I had prints on my wall. One of them was “Woman at the Piano” by Renoir.
My parents lived in Chicago at the time and we paid a visit to the Chicago Art Institue. There was the original of the “Woman at the Piano.”
I was stunned. The painting was alive: the colors in the white, the confident brush strokes, I could almost hear the music.
I realized my copy was dead.
When we got back home, I tore every print off my walls and for years had blank walls. (Echo, echo, echo…) When you buy an original piece of art, you are buying something that the artist directly created: there could be an eyelash, a flake of skin, dust from the environment. You are buying a living creation.
Second Saturday and our annual tour give you plenty of opportunities to purchase art directly from the artist and to have an original creation in your home or office.
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