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Art in its purist form.

By David Tatham

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Published: 06Feb2010
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The thought of becoming an artist, would often make one think of 'bohemian' types with little money enjoying life's many pleasures. The idea that it could be taken as a serious career was far less romantic.

From an early age, most professional artists would enjoy, and have an aptitude for painting and drawing. As with many professions, it is only a very small percentage, 'the lucky few' that manage to achieve worldwide recognition. Actually, apart from a bit of luck and being in the right place at the right time, it is usually down to pure hard work; phsyical and mental.

An artist must produce something that people wish to see. He/she must stimulate their imagination showing certain aspects that had not previously been seen, perhaps the viewer had always held these thoughts, but it was not until seeing a certain work of art did they understand, or bring to the forefront of their mind these feelings and emmotions.

Pre ninteen hundreds, painting was used to a certain extent as photography is used today. ie. to record certain events and people. However unlike photography art has always had a much 'looser rein'. This can easily be seen in paintings by the great masters, Michael Angelo, the Rennaisance painters, who could create an entire story with the use of colours and shapes. Artists usually have a feeling for a certain aspect in life's richness.

Lowry for example would paint the depressing misery of the Northern English working class as they toiled long hours in the dirty mills of Lancashire.David Shepherd feels he owes a great debt to the animals he has painted, which have made him one of the world's greatest wildlife artists, and it gives him pleasure to help save many of the creatures on Earth that are now facing extinction, mainly through man's unrelenting greed, sadly. Sir William Russell Flint became a watercolourist after working as a medical artist, sketching various anatomical conditions throughout the war. He progressed to a wonderful display of architecture, long flowing robes and naked female form that has never been surpassed, and gained him the reputation of being of one of the finest watercolourists the world has ever seen.

This style of work offers something quite different to what we may call 'contemporary' art. A certain amount of professional marketing is always necessary to bring the work to the public, but the latter type relies very heavily on not only heavy marketing and hype, one might say, a little like 'the emperor who wore no clothes'. Others may say "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." With enormous quatities of money changing hands, like the cement between the bricks, this is usually what happens, but eventually the ultimate test for geat art is.. Does it or will it stand the test of time? If the answer is yes, then the work has something that will be passed on to generations. If the answer is no, then it will it will be forgotten and thrown in the bin.

Over the years, art dealer David Tatham has seen the rise of many now famous artists; one such man is David Shepherd, and an extensive collection of his signed limited edition prints and original paintings can be viewed and bought from the website http://www.davidshepherd.com

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