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Contemporary Art for Christmas Gifts

January 25, 2012 / / No comments

Contemporary Art for Christmas Gifts

Here’s a thought for the festive season. We’re always racking our brains trying to think of the ultimate gift to give someone. You know – something really original, something they’ll love and use and admire. Something, in other words, that will actually be worth buying in the first place and won’t end up consigned to the Drawer of Lost Items in approximately three and a half days’ time. How about some contemporary art? Genuine, real, original art that no one else will have – and that will be guaranteed to go perfectly with the house?

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Contemporary Paintings – Who Gets to Say What ‘Contemporary’ Means?

January 20, 2012 / / No comments

Contemporary Paintings – Who Gets to Say What ‘Contemporary’ Means?

The art establishment is not the sole determiner of what contemporary art is. Just writing about the term “contemporary paintings” makes me cringe because it conjures up a type of art snob with nose in the air as they speak knowingly about what they call fine art. For I admit to being one of those people who loves art, who thinks she can tell the authentic from the nice, and certainly can identify the awful and shallow. But I abhor the official snobbery of the art establishment, those who would declare themselves arbitraters of what is art and what is not. And I know I am not alone.

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Contemporary Greeting Cards

January 15, 2012 / / No comments

Contemporary Greeting Cards

There is certainly no shortage of greeting cards available to choose from in the specialist High Street stores and the supermarkets. When you start to look along the expansive racking you quickly notice that there is a standard theme running through all of these retailers and the bulk of the greeting cards that are on offer are very generic and much the same from store to store. In fact it is hard to determine one publisher from another at the mass market level. On thing that is very clear and that is there is very little design led contemporary product available unless you are fortunate enough to have a boutique style greeting card specialist in your town such as Scribbler.

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