Florence 2005 Summer Art Show Essays
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essay [e-sa'] v.t.1. To try to do or accomplished; attempt. 2 To test the nature, quality, etc., of. See synonyms under ENDEAVOR. [Var. of ASSAY. v.] --n. [e-sa',es'a]

  1. [es'a] A literary composition on some special subject, analytical, expository, critical, or reflective and personal, commonly briefer and less complete and formal than a treatise; latterly, any dissertation on a particular subject, a form of pure representative discourse.
  2. An endeavor; attempt; effort.
  3. Obs. An assay.
  4. In philately, a rejected or unused design for a stamp..

Welcome to our forum. These are the summer art show essays I wrote for our other website, www.antiqueart.com. Forums are supposed to work in both directions. God only knows how much time we will have to answer your correspondence [designprointl@charter.net]. Please keep in mind that, without a doubt, we will not be able to respond to them all. We hope you will comeback to check our monthly articles, and hope also that you will find information in them valuable to your knowledge of Art. We ask you to keep in mind the multiple meanings in the above definition.



August 2003
CLEANING AND RESTORING PAINTINGS AND FRAMES
On several occasions clients have asked me for information concerning cleaning and restoring paintings. These questions fall in two groups. One concerns the desirability of cleaning and restoration. The other concerns actual methods and techniques. Although books...read more

ESSAY ARCHIVES

Februrary 2002
THE NATURE OF DAMAGE AND RESTORATION IN ART RELATIVE TO VALUE
One can hardly collect or deal in any way with antique Art, or any Art for that matter, without confronting damage...read more

December 2001
PAINTING PARIS AND FLORENCE
It is a little over a month since our return from Italy and France. It's taken almost that long to catchup up with old business and to make a start on the work picked up over there...read more

September 2001
This month's essay must by necessity of spirit concern the recent world tragedy that we all have witnessed and by which we have all been victimized. This victimization even extends...read more

July 2001
FORM, TEXTURE AND RHYTHM
Going through the list of elements of Design, the three mentioned above are next...read more

May 2001
HUE VALUE CONTRAST
The last essay discussed the elements of design and the rules of composition, or at least began to. If you have read it you may remember...read more

March 2001
ELEMENTS OF DESIGN, RULES OF COMPOSITION
In my last essay as I recall I set myself the monumental task of defining Art's vocabulary and in doing so also defining what makes Art work ...read more

January 2001
A SPACE ODYSSEY
I have been painting, I confess, and if this writing were any later this essay would have been February's...read more

December 2000
THE PRECIOUS NATURE OF ART
The year is coming to an end. Each year at this time I feel exactly like Santa Claus. In this business the holidays always bring...read more

November 2000
ART POLITICAL
Political Art is a theme that has varied through time in sync with political history. The great recent, dawn of 20th-century, rift between what has been called classical and modern Art...read more

October 2000
REFERENCE PAINTINGS NUMBERS FOUR AND EIGHT
I purchased the these paintings together from a dealer, and I believe they were probably part of the same estate originally purchased commercially in the 20s as part of a decorative scheme...read more