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Top 20 Celebrity Artists That Paint
In researching for our previous post on celebrity art investors, we came across an amazing array of celebrities who not only collect art, but create it as well! We couldn’t resist dedicating a post to some of these multi-faceted artists. Amongst celebrities, painting seems to be the preferred form of visual art, and its no…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 09/05/2016
Art Changes Everything “Create Art, Change Everything”
You Accepted Our Challenge And We Proved Art Can Change Everything! “Create Art, Change Everything” by Amy Gardner Dean (pictured middle) Jerry’s Artarama started out to prove that artists are passionate about what they create and that art should be a part of everyone’s life. Here at our corporate offices, we bet our boss that…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 18/03/2016
More of the Best of Sidewalk 3D Art
Don’t Fall In….Wait, Actually, You Can’t. More of really amazing 3rd Street art with chalk where 3d chalk painters bring a whole new dimension to the pavement! This art will melt your brain. To see more, check out our other article, The Best of Sidewalk 3D Art
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 05/01/2016
Picasso Painting Breaks Record at Auction
Picasso’s Painting Is The Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold, $174 million dollars! DATE: May 14, 2015 – Pablo Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” sold at auction in New York for $179,365,000. The painting is considered to be one of the Pablo Picasso’s most important works. “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)”, translated to “Women of…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 14/05/2015
What the Blue/Black/White/Gold Dress Tells Us About How We View Color
Why We Perceive Color Differently Unless you’ve been stuck at sea for the past two weeks, then you’ve definitely seen the dress that went viral on the internet last week and felt some form of anger at others who think that the dress is the wrong color. But what color is the dress really? And…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 10/03/2015
Please Do Touch -New Exhibit Allows the Blind to Touch Famous Pieces of Art
Madrid’s Prado Museum Introduces Unique Art Exhibition for the Blind Guests feel a textured version of Velazquez’s “The Triumph of Baccus” (image courtesy of Museo Nacional Del Prado) The Museo Nacional Del Prado (Madrid, Spain) opened its first exhibit for the sight impaired recently which allows people to touch recreated famous classical masterpieces. For the visually…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 19/02/2015
Disabled Artists Create Mind Art with Their Brains with Winsor and Newton
Chinese ‘Mind Art’ Project Raises Awareness for Disabled Rights Image via huffingtonpost.com Winsor & Newton, a fine arts materials supplier founded in 1832 has always been dedicated to the mix of science and art and is now using that blend of interests to help raise awareness for an underrepresented subset of people. There is an…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 01/11/2014
5 Facts About The Way We See Color
Top 5 Reasons Why Colors Are Absolutely Crazy We each probably think of colors as pretty simple. There’s red, blue and green and the rest are made from those three right? Well… Our minds conceptions of colors are all crazy. We see such a spectrum of colors that we have only just begun to understand…..
Jerry's -- 10/07/2014
Which Ampersand Panel is Right for Your Art?
Why Trust Your Art to Anything Less? For a surface that will accommodate mixed media better than others, Ampersand’s panels can handle any job! Ampersand Panels are perfect for everything from encaustic paints and collage to oil and water-miscable paints, inks, graphite, colored pencils, casesin and even egg tempera. You name it, Ampersand can take…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 20/02/2014
Art Journaling Can Improve Your Creativity!
Daily Journaling also Tracks Your Growth as an Artist Keeping a journal has long been a practice for writers of all kinds. Journalists must keep detailed accounts as they are working on a larger story, and it has also been considered useful for creative writers as an outlet for letting loose a train of…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 21/01/2014
Top Celebrity Art Investors
Celebrities from Eric Clapton to Steve Martin, David Bowie to Brangelina, Leonardo DiCaprio are all investing in and collecting art! Celebrity and famous art collectors Over the centuries, artists have relied on patrons — wealthy people with good taste — to support their lives and art. Without patronage of the arts, the world may never…..
Jerry's -- 28/02/2013
Realist Revolution and Critical Relevance by Alexey Steele
The most Memorable Panel Discussion at PSOA After enormously intense and exciting Spring of our fantastic PSOA adventure in DC and the “Hottest Summer” on record with three concurrent shows and quite a bit of painting it’s great to come back and to reflect on most fascinating intellectual exchange and sharing of ideas we had…..
Jerrys Blog Squad -- 09/02/2011
Why is Graffiti Dead? by Miles Wickham
Maybe cuz….. Of all the well known and skilled graffiti artist in the world, which is in the thousands, there are a handful that I still to this day are admired for their uniqueness. Since graffiti is a limited artform in the sense that it is confined to an alphabet, it can be easy for…..