New art in artist's living room gallery - part I
We will be opening a new show in celebration of Earth Day. We'll call it e
ARTh Day. Here are few of the new works hanging the gallery.
About Techno-Impressionism
"The art world hasn't had a decent movement in almost 100 years.
Think of Techno-Impressionism as a laxative."
- Pablo PigCasso
We need new labels to help understand new ideas. Then, as the idea develops, we have a place to add these evolving thoughts. Thus we have 're-engineering,' 'downsizing' and other terms that are linked with new concepts.
With Impressionism, the name of an art movement told you something about the art itself. After that, the names of the movements became less descriptive and, in some cases, indicated a period rather than a style.
As a Techno-Impressionist Tony Karp wants to create art that people would want to possess.
The real purpose of Techno-Impressionism is to encourage artists to produce the sort of work that had been produced 100 years earlier. If this sort of art is encouraged and rewarded, more artists will take the risk of doing this sort of work.
Tony Karp, the Techno-Impressionist, is trying to re-start some artistic threads that died off one hundred years earlier.
For example, just like the Impressionists considers it a bad sign that art has become things like performance art and piling a bunch of bananas on a wall. This sort of thing is replacing the art of drawing which is not held in the same esteem it had been in the 19th Century. A great tradition and an art form may be at risk of being lost.
Tony sees a great significance in the death of this type of art at the end of the last century.
He sees an opportunity for a new beginning in art, at the start of a new century, and at the start of a new millennium as well.
Tony Karp, through is art is saying: Let's rewind to 1880 and try again.
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